Whose leaders are they?

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Why is it so that you are following a traffic queue and waiting for your turn to pass through a security barrier and suddenly a vehicle bearing the name-plate of ‘MNA’ overpasses the whole line and goes away without being checked?
People elect their representatives so that the elected people (MPAs, MNAs) will become their voice; provide them relief; make their representation at national and international level; give them ownership; ensure their participation in the decision making process; facilitate them to the fullest. If these ministers do forget obligations and duties of their positions, which they owe to masses, should at least act sensibly and carefully so that the common man’s emotions may not hurt. Things would have been much better if the rulers would exercise their authorities with conscience of social responsibility. People do feel compunction when they come to know about lip service of their elected representatives: only concerned about their vested interests.
Political parties are again struggling for canvassing but none of the political party has any tangible thing to be proud of – corruption, lawlessness, terrorism, ethnic and sectarian rifts, lack of basic amenities/utilities, consistent decline in the standard of living – you name any bad norm, that’s the way of living in Pakistan. Why people should use their political right to elect such insensitive and indifferent people who are doing nothing except breaking the trust of general public which is not getting food, clothe, education, justice, and any sort of basic/fundamental rights to live on peacefully?
SABA ASGHER ALI
Islamabad