By Sikander Hayat
Pakistan is currently battling many enemies at the same time. Are we going to win these skirmishes or are we to be the footnote in history books. Future generations will write that these were the people who could not survive as a great country which straddled the land from the foothills of Himalayas to the shores of Arabian Sea. A vast expanse of land but filled only with short sighted hypocrites who sold their souls to devil to achieve their personal nefarious goals.
The list of fights that we have on our hands as a nation is long but some prime threats are out battle
against the evil of Mullahism, our battle against American demands, our battle against Indian involvement in Balochistan, our battle against the corrupt elite of Pakistan, our battle against the ignorance of our masses, our battle against the incompetence of Zardari government and our battle against the humiliation visited upon millions of Pakistan while standing in long queues to get basic rations.
No one in the governing class listens as our democracy is standing on the false pillars. On the voting day, people vote on the basis of caste and creed and not the past performances of the ruling classes. Our voters are carted in trolleys, like cattle, to the polling stations where they vote. Anyone who believed that democracy like this will ever take Pakistan anywhere is living in a fool’s paradise. Pakistan will change when its people start voting on the performances by evaluating the deeds done by each of the parties and not because some influential figure in their midst told them to do so.
If Pakistan needs anything at the movement, it is the rule of law. Some people argue that it is education but I don’t believe that as when these same illiterate Pakistanis live in other countries they live as model citizens but the moment they touch down in Pakistan,
something happens which turn them into wild law breaking animals. We need law enforcement both at the street level and the court level. Unless citizens know that they will get punished if they broke the law, their will be no democracy, no prosperity and no tolerance.
I leave it to my readers to decide if my thesis is anywhere near truth because only truth can set us free.
Pakistan is currently battling many enemies at the same time. Are we going to win these skirmishes or are we to be the footnote in history books. Future generations will write that these were the people who could not survive as a great country which straddled the land from the foothills of Himalayas to the shores of Arabian Sea. A vast expanse of land but filled only with short sighted hypocrites who sold their souls to devil to achieve their personal nefarious goals.
The list of fights that we have on our hands as a nation is long but some prime threats are out battle
against the evil of Mullahism, our battle against American demands, our battle against Indian involvement in Balochistan, our battle against the corrupt elite of Pakistan, our battle against the ignorance of our masses, our battle against the incompetence of Zardari government and our battle against the humiliation visited upon millions of Pakistan while standing in long queues to get basic rations.No one in the governing class listens as our democracy is standing on the false pillars. On the voting day, people vote on the basis of caste and creed and not the past performances of the ruling classes. Our voters are carted in trolleys, like cattle, to the polling stations where they vote. Anyone who believed that democracy like this will ever take Pakistan anywhere is living in a fool’s paradise. Pakistan will change when its people start voting on the performances by evaluating the deeds done by each of the parties and not because some influential figure in their midst told them to do so.
If Pakistan needs anything at the movement, it is the rule of law. Some people argue that it is education but I don’t believe that as when these same illiterate Pakistanis live in other countries they live as model citizens but the moment they touch down in Pakistan,
something happens which turn them into wild law breaking animals. We need law enforcement both at the street level and the court level. Unless citizens know that they will get punished if they broke the law, their will be no democracy, no prosperity and no tolerance. I leave it to my readers to decide if my thesis is anywhere near truth because only truth can set us free.
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