As we celebrate our 66th Independence Day, Pakistan faces its worst economic crisis while the nation is ravaged by insecurity, religious fanaticism, target killings, extortion and massive corruption. There can be no denying the fact that this country has suffered at the hands of those who have benefited the most, be they its corrupt civil servants or uniformed officers, or feudal mindset of its engineered ruling political elite. Democratic political activity has been replaced with dynastic political rule. This country needs to break itself from shackles of domination by selfish ruling elite, restore rule of law, or else it will fragment into a Somalia like situation.
We had an elected government in 2008, which unfortunately has almost doubled the national domestic and foreign debt during past four years, with absolutely nothing to show as far as infrastructure is concerned, where these resources should have been invested. The country is facing its worst energy crisis, a culmination of years of mismanagement under military and corrupt political mediocrity.
Ethical politics practiced by our Founding Father Quaid-e-Azam has been replaced with dirty power politics by greedy politicians, most of whom have no stakes in this country. While the Quaid wanted Pakistan to be a democratic welfare state, where all citizens enjoyed equal rights, irrespective of their caste, creed, faith or sex, Ayub Khan’s military intervention ensured that Jinnah’s vision of a welfare state is replaced by a security state. We lost East Pakistan because we failed to adhere to democratic norms.
Today, we are a nation whose people have no security, where politicians and paid civil or khaki public office holders having foreign nationalities decide the fate of a people with whom, neither they nor their children, have anything to share. Our religious minorities who were assured security of life and property, by Quaid are fleeing from Sindh and Balochistan, because the state out of political exigencies allows thugs and robber barons to kidnap them for ransom, forcibly grabbing their lands. It is not just minorities but members of Muslim majority population who are being subjected to ethnic cleansing by design, not because of failure of law, but its being slave to political short term gains.
MALIK TARIQ ALI
Lahore
What's THE most practical solution?
I see it in revolution, but we have lost our integrity as a nation and as far as we are happy and safe in our own niche, non of us will raise the voice for revolution. You need to throttle the people at their necks by making the situation so much horrendous that they will rise against the system….. And with that their will be collateral damage, their always is…. People fear from that kind of damage…. So wait and see….. Till every one is throttled down…..
TRUTH: Pakistani Water Car invented by Agha Waqar & his team is indeed the greatest invention of mankind history: A Nation that has one of the most creative brains in the world has finally won.
Any wise person can understand at the spot that it is despicable crime to declare Agha Waqar a fraud with out finding physically any fraud in car that he has already demonstrated in front of top journalists politicians and many Ph.D's. Some theoretical Ph.D's has launched hate campaign against the greatest inventor of mankind history Agha Waqar. All objections of these some IRRESPONSIBLE Ph.D's do not carry any weight and sense. They WRONGLY claim, this invention violates laws of science; in fact it does not. The reason of their totally absurd claims is their jealousy against inventor & their inability to understand that new invention. Their universe of science has been stuck & confined to a blackbox called electrolysis. Just like a rusty deformed crooked needle of a retired old wall-clock that is stuck at one place due to its weak battery. So these some useless jealous Ph.D's have lost their faculty to think OUT OF BOX. They will not understand mechanics of this greatest invention unless they start to think out of box. Sometime they say, Agha is not engineer, so he cannot invent. But Edison the biggest inventor of history was too neither Ph.D nor even B.Engg. Ata Rehman & Hoodbhoy are driving their truck in wrong direction on one way road. Their all hue & cry is, that car cannot be run on electrolysis with battery but they do not know that method of Agha is ABSOLUTELY not conventional Electrolysis. When they will know his method, they will not sleep for many nights.
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