The government cannot exercise restraint over their lavish expenditure. It has no money to pay back colossal debt owed to IMF and to buy dollars at growing rate to pay for oil imports; hence the nation should pay no matter how. The president and the pm have just 18 cars, ambulances and some six siren hooters in their cavalcade which are not enough to give them full security. Following Zardari’s experiment of 55 police cars, a truck in addition to ambulance and 14 siren hooters to show to the world our grandeur, the incumbent VVIPs needs extra buck; the nation should pay Rs20 per litre extra to save the ‘kings’.
Load shedding has so far been tackled from one end, the supply end. The rate of power should be made 25 per unit to curb demand; there will be no load shedding. The Leader of the House and the Leader of the Opposition needed four meetings to shortlist the name of chairman NAB; Thank God they have reached the figure of four in fourth meeting on 2 October. The Karachi Add IG catches MQM member for killing; the MQM should go on hunger strike. It is international conspiracy. This AIG should be stripped off his uniform or pips (he carries too many on his shoulders anyway).
Since rockets are fired at helicopters and aid carrying vehicles to Auran and South Balochistan; the aid should be suspended. It will take some 15 days for them to die of hunger and thirst. Who says we have no solution to our problems. We have authors of politics-made-easy books with lots of experience in the chairs. Austerity is a proposal by some lunatic.
AMJAD HABIB MIRZA
Lahore
