Trimming the leaves and branches are not enough -- the very roots have to be uprooted. The resolve of the current emergency regime is laudable, but the proof of the pudding lies in the eating. The Army Chief sounds tough. We have seen similar exercises all over the world; but the evil inertia of bad governance is very tenacious.

The new governance is passing through the incubation period -- it is not an elected government, but enjoys public support. Then there are vested foreign groups who are putting pressure on this government through indirect diplomatic pressures of various kinds. The local psychology and culture have to be analysed carefully for fine-tuning this operation clean-up.

Money cannot buy anything and everything, but it could do a lot of damage and slow down honest endeavours through delaying processes and subtle sabotage exercises. Only honest elected politicians can handle such operations on long-term basis. This is a big hurdle in have-not societies. Also we can learn a few lessons from what is happening in Pakistan today under a military general.

Now the militia are operating kitchen markets; which is not their job. There are shortages of food and the essentials of daily life. Thus a short-term emergency regime is theoretically handicapped in coping with the accumulated garbage of the nation for over three decades.

Nothing new has been pointed out above, and it is not difficult for laymen to fathom out what went wrong with us since liberation. The media is helping with public feedbacks. Some hasty actions have created bottlenecks (physical and mental).

Slow and steady is not the need of the day. Let us seek divine guidance.