".... Communist society is indeed the highest form of society imaginable in this world, but to build the highest form of society, the people who build it must possess the highest moral qualities.”
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The Coke Studio's "Harkalay." It's like trying to decipher an ancient language. I feel like I need a linguistic GPS just to navigate through the song's lyrics. Was it Pashto? Someone pass me the dictionary; I need to decode this musical enigma!
same clay as other Pakistanis. Direct contact with the army would disillusion the people and destroy the charisma— a resource that had to be cherished and conserved for it was invaluable in times of crisis.
Dawn, The role of the Milatary-Burreaucratic Oligarchy.
This charisma, Sher Ali argued with much force, was based on false premises and was, therefore, extremely fragile. It existed only
because the common people had no actual contact with the army and did not realize that army personnel were fashioned by the Almighty from the
In the minds of the people, unlike the bureaucracy and the politicians with whom they had daily contact and whom they knew to be corrupt and oppressive, the army was the final guarantor of Pakistan and its well-being.
The strength of the army which enabled it to seize the initiative from incompetent politicians in March 1969, he argued, lay in its charisma. This was a precious political resource that once lost would not be easily retrieved.
It existed because the mass of the people had not actually encountered the army directly. For them it was a mythical entity, a magical force, that would succor them in times of need when all else failed.