While wandering into the cities, towns and villages of my home province, Sindh, one can see thousands of children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs in the streets, in particular, the children whose relatives were affected by the man-made and natural disasters of the last two consecutive years. On can witness that the so-called representatives, the money crazy bureaucrats and technocrats, make every effort to degrade and debase these ill-fated children as they beg for food. One can hear the heart-wrenching stories and at some places can see that the disaster-affected people keep on selling their newborns because they can’t feed them.
The present rulers have done nothing for the common people but they have done a lot for a chosen few families, or better to say a chosen few individuals, in the province and one ethnic group. People know that a chosen few penniless persons have become billionaires at least in my home district Larkano. In the prevalent situation one of the senior advocates from Larkano rightly says, “ we need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of the downtrodden and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential as it was done during the days of Shaheed ZAB but sorry to say nothing is being done nowadays.”
Where are the national and local NGOs which usually market the miseries of these poor and the disaster affected people in the luxury hotels of the big cities such like Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore and suck maximum funds from the gracious and generous international donor bodies and NGOs? Unfortunately, they too have done nothing to alleviate the miseries of masses in Sindh However, both, the incumbent rulers and the national NGO activists, are there to serve their own interests.
HASHIM ABRO
Islamabad
