1. We keep our house clean from the rats?
2. We feed milk and honey to the rats?
3. We do nothing but waive sticks at the cat?
Any suggestions?
You are asking for a solution to our rat infestation.
That's a very good question, and one worth asking.
However, you should also remember what they say: "be very careful when you set out to look for something; you may not like what you find".
Let's start by acknowledging that we have a much bigger infestation problem than just one group of rats. We have several colonies of rats throughout the country, and many of them intermingle. Some share ideologies, others share sponsors, and they all share zealotry.
While this particular cat is content to chase individual rats, we, as Pakistanis, need a more comprehensive strategy. Chasing individual rats is a fool's errand and horribly impractical in the long run, for each dead rat gives rise to ten new ones.
We must identify the root causes of the infestation:
Who is nurturing these rats?
Who keeps protecting them?
Where are the nurseries that hatch new rats?
What kind of environment facilitates such nurseries?
Who benefits most from such an environment?
As Cicero would say,
cui bono?
Remember, I am not talking about a particular group of rats, but the general country-wide infestation.
The fact is that these rat nurseries require an environment full of poor, uneducated recruits who have been conditioned, over generations, to follow authority unquestioningly. Any spark of education or independence, financial or ideological, in this environment must be ruthlessly quashed.
-- Absolute obedience to authority!
-- Abject poverty!
-- Minimum of education!
These are the cornerstones that make a good rat nursery.
Is there a group of people in Pakistan who benefit from maintaining such an environment over large groups of people? A group that would rather see thousands of people die rather than change the above conditions?
Sure, we know these people. It is the cancer that has been eating Pakistan since its inception.
The
feudal lord demands precisely these attributes from his slaves:
-- Absolute obedience!
-- Barely subsistence level compensation!
-- Minimum of education!
We also know that this feudal cancer won't go away by itself -- what with the mercenary army protecting it all these years.
The rat infestation will only fester and morph into something else; it won't go away until the root cause is removed.
In time, the people of Pakistan will need to address the root cause. They will need to do what every industrialized country has done, centuries ago.
Maybe, one day, Pakistan will have its own French Revolution with mobs of former slaves going from village to village, stringing up their tormentors.
"Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité", n'est-ce pas?
Once that is done, only then will Pakistan get rid of the rats.
Who knows? Some rats may even turn into doves!