It seems that most individuals and institutions of any consequence have given up on Quaid’s version of Pakistan and have made this country a route to serve their personal greed and interests, even if this were to lead to its ultimate collapse. How else we can explain the disappearance of seven Pakistanis from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, or the $30 million fine that the federal government is paying to ADB for not implementing its requirements for transparency, or the reckless killing of men, women and children in Karachi and, even worse still, the ultimate sin by this regime not to respect the verdicts of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Nothing of this sort can happen in the developed world like USA, where every cent of tax-payers money has to be accounted for and nobody would tolerate killing of innocent citizens by political mafias while the elected government chooses to look the other way, just to keep its coalition alive.
Look at the controversies that surround our choice of diplomats to this country (US) or UK, and even the UN. How long will this hypocrisy and institutionalised corruption continue? Why should the people of Pakistan blame others, through their conspiracy theories, when the countrys paid civil servants, uniformed officers, and elected office bearers defy the writ of the state, rule of law and its constitution? A case in point is the bureaucrat who abused his official powers as head of CDA but has not been taken to the task even though the Supreme Court ordered so.
State owned enterprises are being pilfered by dishonest and unqualified cronies of powerful politicians. Even the opposition is not raising hell. This economic rape is continuing unhindered and without any fear of accountability.
The state of Pakistan cannot endure this onslaught from within any longer.
SYED IJAZ
Texas, USA
