While our country is in the grip of tension, confusion, and uncertainty in the wake of long march and sit-ins staged by PTI and PAT, poor people are in complete disarray. Similar to weather, which has become completely abrupt and random changing from summer heat on one day to cold winter on the other, Pakistani politics is becoming a total chaos, which is impossible to predict with exception of end result, which unfortunately seems a disaster one way or the other. Rulers, behaving more like monarchs than democratically elected ones, something very predictable when it comes to the ruling party, seem to be oblivious to what is happening around them.
They appear to be very comfortable with protecting and strengthening the farce named democracy in the country by completely disregarding the very norms that are considered to be the foundations of a democracy i.e., ruling through people not over them. The parliamentarians do not perform their obligations as contrived in the constitution, but always clamour for development funds to initiate projects that advance their popularity or personal wealth. People have grown weary of listening to the oft repeated sermons of politicians turning Pakistan into Paradise when they face insurmountable difficulties in getting even the basic necessities such as water, health, and education. IDPs in KPK due to Zarb-e-Azb and flood in Punjab are running thin on patience.
The government perhaps does not realize how a displaced person feels, and distributing occasional aid packs with party logos where publicity seems more of a target than helping them does not cut it for the IDPs. Even in this, the rulers seem to be paying more attention to flood affected than the IDPs of KPK just because Punjab seems to be the political hotbed at this time and a photo shoot with them provides better press ops. The PM needs to take all parties into confidence sincerely and work for betterment of general public or I am afraid we are up for very turbulent and chaotic times.
RAJA SHAFAAT ULLAH
Islamabad
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