One should not grow up to have ideological differences with power brokers. This kind of mindset has consequences on the human personality. For one thing, you can end up developing a mentality that easily finds negativity in others, especially in people holding positions of power. You end up becoming a cribber. And if you are a sensitive person who likes to look good, you will face a certain feeling of awkwardness about yourself that at a time or place where you should have been dressed up all so good with a smiling countenance, why did you have to look grotesque by talking ill of someone. For the other thing, this can naturally lead you to trouble. Even if you don’t like to hate yourself and you have a happy personality, criticizing personnel behind the corridors of power can mean that the days of your happiness are numbered.
However, sometimes you should definitely speak up against powerful folks even if you are so apolitical. A certain degree of political activism is incumbent upon all of us.
The recent allotment of a landmass to General Raheel Sharif reminds me of a conversation with two of my colleagues in a car on our way to Lahore a few years back. We were serving together in Namal college Mianwali together as faculty members at that time and we were headed to attend the annual convocation.
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