Pakistan - A Phoenix?

Be it a natural catastrophe, man-made brutality, an economic nose-dive or fatal epidemics; Pakistan has been falling prey to the contamination of time, trauma and transition. 

Just when we thought we had started rehabilitating after the disastrous floods of 2010, another torrent for Sindh (a province in southern Pakistan) was waiting around the corner. In spite of its magnitude, it did not frighten us as much as the one before this did. One may comprehend that we as a nation have come out of the past devastation so strong that no such calamity can hold us back. As a matter of fact, the rationale is slightly different this time around. Without tagging our attitudes with the expressions like 'heartless' or 'inhumane', one needs to underscore other angles to this dilemma.

The fact that hardships do not scare us any longer is itself quite frightening. Now the question arises 'what is keeping us so preoccupied' that we have started refraining from contemplating the difficulties besieging us. Though it may sound more like a rhetorical statement, answers to this question are not hard to stumble on in this day and age. 

First, let us imagine a Pashtun or Muhajir in Karachi, or someone who is not a Balochi or Pashtun in Quetta, living in the areas highly vulnerable to targeted killing; a dengue patient in Lahore constantly having a check on his Blood Platelets' Count; someone who is jobless and bothered only about earning the next meal to feed his family; a small entrepreneur waiting for a few hours of electricity; a troubled textile mill owner thinking of shifting outside Pakistan, or a think-tank wondering about the FDI prospects in the midst of turbulent law and order situation of the country. 


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