THE nation is rightly disturbed by the ongoing tussle involving power structures. We must always learn from historyin an efforttobe able toresist the various temptations that intoxication of power causes. There are examples where one can see the powerful overstepping the line and then having to pay the price for such a transgression.
King Charles I, for instance, had his struggles with parliament that forced the country into a lingering civil war and concluded with his own execution. In 1648, British parliament, upon the king`s refusal to sign a bill, defeated him by assuming his powers through a unanimously passed resolution, put him to trial that found him guilty of treason. He was beheaded outside London`s Whitehall.
Today, in Pakistan, every element within the power structure seems to beintoxicated. They are all busy with the self-imposed task of establishing their writ. None of them seems concerned at all by the fact that the flour price may soon touch the Rs200 per kg mark.
