NEWS ANALYSIS – Push them into a corner, bombard them with left and right jabs, knock the living daylights out of them and do not stop until they rue that very moment when they dropped their votes into the ballot box in your favour.
Apparently, that is how the government is dealing with the hapless masses, particularly the hopelessly resilient citizens of Karachi… like a boxing bout in which the pro is giving the thrashing of a lifetime to a rookie.
The ingenuity of it all must be appreciated. Ban pillion riding, leaving many citizens to the mercy of public transport owners. Then suspend gas supply to CNG stations for two days every week, despite knowing that most of the public transport vehicles are now running on gas. And then to ensure that no gaps are left unplugged, increase the price of diesel so that the public transport vehicles are not run on that during the no-CNG days.
Yes, it looks so perfectly contrived that it is hard to believe that the only reason this is happening is the absolute apathy of the government.
The people at the helm of affairs have never bothered to consider the repercussions of their decisions; how they affect the lives of the common people; never concerning themselves with the trivial existence of the hoi polloi apart from those few days prior to the elections.
But for some odd reason, our battered and bruised public is still not ready to give up on them yet. Many of us might not have enough to land their hands on two proper meals in a day, but they will be participating in rallies, shouting “jeay this” and “jeay that”. Thus, the clobbering will go on until they come to their senses one day.
