Pakistan, Jan. 21 -- "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me". Any student of history will quickly recognise these words as those of Martin Niemoller, the Lutheran Pastor in Nazi Germany. He was most probably commenting on the Gestapo tactics in the Third Reich and lamenting his own complicity in that regard by not admonishing the practice. Niemoller's fundamental hypothesis was that whenever there is a sinful or wrongful act, one should alwa...