Sanity is aghast, bewildered and at loss to understand; what is happening in Pakistan. Everyone with a bit of concern and realisation daily fights a battle in mind on available options, helplessness and agitation. Our motherland is faced with two kinds of battles which mutually drive each other. The outside battle is to decide which pole Pakistan will be in – US or China. The inside battle is between status quo and non-status quo forces.
Owing to the prolonged periods of conflict, monopoly, debauchery, mismanagement, lust for easy money, leadership crisis, ascendency of unfair means and might is right; the country seems to have lost the plot. The people have no voice, vigour, power and say, whereas those who have power are lacking realisation.
I have felt since long that, THE WRONG is prevailing in Pakistan while THE RIGHT is cornered. I will rather say that the mere definition of right and wrong is cockeyed and different from rest of the world. The power, unfairness, wealth and cheatery can get you anything and ironically the society at large has no problems with it. Everyone instead of resisting immorality is waiting for own turn, while the bulk is indifferent. The positive knowledge which I say is meant for good is lacking while the negative knowledge which is meant to do bad things is prevailing. One can find abundance of guidance for cheating, land grabbing, rigging, mis-interpretation of law, befooling people while those trying to do good are considered misfit and foolish.
Lawlessness, highhandedness, might is right, serving of vested interests, mismanagement, rule of power instead of rule of law and domination of the crooked have further aggravated in last two years. Each day we rise to shocking news holding our breath and wondering how further can we fall. All segments of power are hedging behind self-defined national interests and bent upon seeking objectives tangent to sanity, morality, ethics, humanity, fair-play, justice and people-centricity. Actions of the state, seem to be testing nerves of the people and daring them to take things in their own hands.
I have held a view since long that people of Pakistan have to take their destiny in their own hands to make Pakistan rise. Else masters will keep changing, pseudo-intellectuals will keep ruling, tainted judiciary will keep doing injustice, and people of Pakistan will keep suffering. Sri Lanka won 27 years long insurgency based on Rajapaksa model. Second principle of the model says, “go to hell (that is, ignore domestic and international criticism)”. We are exactly opposite of this, we are more concerned about external opinions than internal ones.
Unfortunately in today’s Pakistan:
1. Ashrafia has become Badmashia
2. Money matters the source doesn’t
3. Marks matter the education doesn’t
4. Power matters the morality doesn’t
5. Money can get you anything and everything
6. Constitution is disrespected but common man is asked to follow traffic rules
7. Mediocrity is prevalent
Punjab seems more indifferent than smaller provinces. On one hand it may be due to known and established historical meekness of Punjabis and secondly it may be due to fact that Punjab is usurper of rights of smaller provinces. Bulk of state machinery is from Punjab, thus Punjab seems to be beneficiary of this cockeyed system.
It’s high time people of Pakistan should take reins in their own hands. Not that God forsake a civil war is desired or wished for, it only means people beginning to say out loud what they want. People call-out right and wrong. Decision makers who are calling shots with impunity should be concerned about voice of people of Pakistan. Whenever elections are held, people vote en mass and based on call of conscience. Pakistan should be left on auto-mode and new experiments should be avoided. It’s now or never. Either people of Pakistan rise to this occasion or fall for ever. Choice is ours.
Sammilogger 