**tribal Ways (The General) Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

There was a general of the whole body of armed men he would ensure order and implement the order of the supreme body comprising twelve people working as a cabinet in the general body every adult male could participate and give his opinion in the time of emergency all customs and traditions would suspend there was an elite of force called the fortees chalveshti who would be under the direct command of the general they could impose fine or do whatever coercive measure required in normal peace time the general would rest at home he was not paid any remuneration the affairs decided by the council of elders to be placed before maraca the general body there was conscription if required one man on every household or every adult male for a conventional warfare using guns and sometimes the tribe would acquire heavy weapons the tribe was a state writ large if allowed they would have evolved a common law of the land the law was secular then the religion came and objected on some ways but the traditions were stronger in what portion of history we place them we do not know but the political mind was working towards its evolution with strong individuality the general of the army was in most cases a comic figure under the control of the council of elders did not the Greek direct democracy evolve like this it needed a spark and Socrates with lyceum of Aristotle
30/4/2009