No lessons learnt
Most, if not all, of the government’s problems are either self-created or result from misgovernance. The recent fuel crisis is the perfect example. Despite many days of shortage, and investigations, there is little progress on ground. Both petroleum and finance ministers refused to take responsibility, and blaming it ultimately on Ogra found few takers. The party’s senior ministers, usually very vocal, suddenly find it difficult to explain their failure at basic governance. It was not surprising, therefore, to hear Ishaq Dar speak of “deep conspiracies” against the government. What sort of conspiracy, after all, could cause fuel shortage when Brent crude is at record low?
The government’s failure is now leading people to question the effectiveness of democracy in conditions like Pakistan’s, where people are unable to hold leaders accountable. Not long ago, the N-league postured as if it were the embodiment of democracy, equating attack against it with an assault on representative politics. Yet not many people agree with this line anymore. A democracy that is unable to provide basic necessities – like electricity, gas and, remarkably, fuel – does not impress the common man. He has seen far too many dishonoured promises to believe in anything less than action.
Rather than resort to talk of conspiracies, etc, the government should concentrate on doing its job. Dar sb should explain just where and why the circular debt broke down again, not the least because dolling out an unaudited Rs500 billion to clear it was one of his quicker decisions. And the petroleum minister should understand, like everybody else, that his ministry is concerned when oil is mysteriously unavailable. They should then make sure such problems are not repeated. The prime minister, too, does not improve his fortunes by holding long meetings, making tall promises, yet delivering nothing time and again. The N-league is in a bind, but that is because it has not learnt its lessons.
"The government’s failure is now leading people to question the effectiveness of democracy in conditions like Pakistan’s, where people are unable to hold leaders accountable."
So whose fault is it that people are unable to make anyone , accountable?
It is none other than the people themselves. It is also peoples' fault to make someone their leader and expect their leader to deliver.
It is peoples' fault to allow the Mafiosis to take those elected by them, their hostage. This is the reason that people do not get their just rights. What more, it is peoples' fault that those Mafiosis exist everyhwere in the world. It is peoples' fault just because people do not organise their own Mafia. A Mafia of the people, by the people in control of the people. Every sincere philosopher, intellectual advised people to organise their own Mafia. Even Allah commanded people to organise their Union. So do we see any Union of the people, anywhere in the world? No. So if people reject the advices fo the intellectuals, if they reject Allah's command, why will they not endure the trouble they will never get into if they obeyed Allah who commanded them to organise. Organise, so they could avoid getting into trouble. Where do people need to go to unite? Come together regularly in the localities where they live. Can they do it? Why not? Wherever there is will, there is way. Coming together to eradicate vice and promote virtue is the right way. It is the responsibility of every soul to come to unite. Come to unite to organise Peoples' Mafia or else endure the slavery of the Mafiosis. If people do not bother with the pain of coming together they will never relish the gain thus made by them.
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