Pakistan is fit to come first on the list of land of morally dead people, as in the past 66 years none of the responsible, either public or civilian figure, bothered to resign over tragedies that cost life to hundreds of people, and Friday’s plane crash incident also appears to heading that way.
Bhoja Airline’s flight B4-213 has once again reminded us that the situation in the country may not improve soon, as the government has once again constituted a committee to probe into the unfortunate incident that cost 127 precious lives.
But, neither the defence minister nor the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) chief has resigned or been suspended.
Pakistan already has a long history of blunders in which hundreds of people had to lose their life due to administrative failures.
The Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) defective drug scandal, dengue outbreak in Punjab, Kalarkahar school bus accident and musical concert stampede at Gaddafi Stadium are few of the recent unfortunate incidents in which precious lives were wasted. But more unfortunate is the fact that the responsibility for these disasters could not be fixed on anyone. In all these incidents, the government constituted investigation committees that never produced a transparent investigation.
Like previous incidents, the government would discharge its obligation by paying a few million rupees to aggrieved families of plane crash victims, and afterwards, nobody will ask the orphans, widows or other relatives about their state.
On the other hand, people responsible for these unfortunate incidents will enjoy the same privilege and protocol.
They merely have to face transfer from one institute to another, but nothing more than that, because the justice system in the country is really blind, institutions are weak and powers are vested with individuals.
However, the advancement in social media and the recent Arab spring are the light at the end of the tunnel.
Social media websites, including micro-blogging portal Twitter, were flooded with condolence messages and criticism of state machinery and role of the media even on the second day of the accident.
Social media junkies kept demanding resignations from the defence minister, defence secretary, CAA DG and airport authorities. They said the CAA, airline management, defence minister and secretary were equally responsible for the accident and if they remained in their offices, they could influence the investigation.
Govt does the ‘needful’ by merely announcing a probe
