We live in a country where political infighting is on, where might makes the right, where rules are for fools, where huge amount is being spent on personal projection and publicity, where nothing is being done to improve the living conditions of the people, where nothing is spent on the construction of basic infrastructure and institutions regarding health, education and communications, where everyday scores of innocent people are being killed either due to non-availability of medicines in the hospitals or in road mishaps, where nothing is being done to improve the law and order in the country.
In order to survive with dignity and honour in today’s world, we need strong ethics – to save and invest, not simply to consume; not simply to depend on loans, not simply waste time in television talk shows and in harangue and pandemonium in the parliament, we need to develop sophisticated skills, with an educated and a highly motivated workforce.
As noted intellectual and writer John Stuart Mill has said: “What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former.”
Indeed, a democratic political system with genuine representatives of the people in the parliament seems best suited to achieve this in this country of ours. Our egocentric politicians must pay attention to it and make this country stronger and democratic.
HASHIM ABRO
Islamabad
Ethica is what every society must have if it desires to survive as part of free world. Most of all we need a civil society, free media which can resist temptation of free foreign junkets or free umra flights like the one hired for them by Bahria Don.
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