Plato and Pakistan

According to a Press report Musharraf has bought a nest in Australia for his residence. What a strategy! The Taliban must be extremely depressed. They have been hunting for Musharraf up and down the country for years. Sometimes they were within an ace of hooking him. But the Commando most craftily dodged them.

Australia is surrounded by wide seas and is very thinly populated. Hunting for Musharraf in such an inhospitable wilderness would be almost impossible for the Taliban. Poor Taliban!

However, there was a more secure asylum in the world. Musharraf could have settled in the North or the South Pole. Had he flown there and had the Taliban got the news, they would have instantaneously dustbinned all their Musharraf-catching plans. And what a glorious redemption it would have been for Musharraf! The Taliban would have consoled themselves by murmuring: "Now we must wait. We would capture him on the Day of Judgement."

As a president, Musharraf carved a place for himself in history. As a settler in the Poles he would have carved a place for himself in geography.

If Musharraf did fly to Australia as a settler, would his political cronies be grieved? Only the cronies know. But what would he himself feel? Let's not ask stupid questions.