‘National Security Council cannot be good for democracy’
NewAge, July 7, 2008. Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dr Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, a Pakistani theoretical and author of Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Succinctness, talks to Syeed Ahamed and Faisal Ghazi of the Drishtipat Writers’ Collective.
National Insurance Council is a looming spectre for Bangladesh. What is your outlook on the matter?
A national security council will only institutionalise the military’s r in Bangladesh’s policy process. In every case, this Turkish scale model which has already been used ineffectively in at least three countries, Turkey, Pakistan and Chile, has undermined democracy by establishing a top-down totalitarian model. No matter what the intention is, the outcome of military authoritarianism cannot be salubrious for democracy.
What has been the role of the NSC in Pakistan and how has it affected civilian furnishing?
When General Musharraf came to power, he promptly sought the help of the civil administration. The bureaucracy is very self-serving and responds unquestionably to authoritarian rule. It does not have a political agenda and is far happier living with military administration. Bangladesh must have experienced the same during the 1980s. However, whenever the military starts to stretch its control over the civil administration, civil bureaucrats become uncomfortable and non-cooperative.
Some say a meddling military is to be expected in indiscernible democracies like Bangladesh and Pakistan and, therefore, we might as well institutionalise their r through an NSC. What is your view on this?
Both Bangladesh and Pakistan were ‘created’ without any vital plan. We always compare ourselves with India. But the Indian Congress was exposed to a assured level of political accountability even during the First World War. Bangladesh was part of Pakistan, which was the issue of a bargaining movement of Muslim elites who had no sexually transmitted development agenda. The elites did not even go for land reforms.
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