Now, since we have such a benevolent government, a government concerned with the ultimate welfare and well-being of its own citizens, now that we have no starving, homeless, destitute populace strewn about the streets literally rummaging through garbage for scarps of food like dogs, now that we have no sick and suffering patients unattended to by the well-staffed and well-managed government run hospitals, now that we have a very low infant mortality rate and our population is not growing at an exponential rate, now that we provide basic free education to all the children in this country, now that our electricity is provided for at affordable rates and at all times, now that our trains run on time, and our government officials have suddenly found integrity and character, now that there is a firm grasp on inflation and prices of essentials are coming down, now that law and order situation in the country is under control and in cities like Karachi one can roam about at night without fear of being robbed or killed, now that sectarian violence is a thing of the past, now that we can celebrate eid on one pre decided date and save the nation from agony every year, now that we are widely respected as upright and honourable citizens of a nation world wide, now that our name is hardly synonymous with terrorism, gun-culture and drugs, now that our leaders truly believe and act in the interest of the nation - We can take a sigh of relief - and shower public funds of staggering amounts to shrines of foreign countries with the hope that the saints will pray to the Lord and Almighty for the continuation of the rule of tyrants and thugs on this besieged country!
I am not only angry I am enraged! What business does Zardari have of giving away a 1 million dollars as donation to the shrine of Ajmer Sharif. The respect for the saint being there why should the government squander public money when we are living on the aid and charity of others ourselves? How self-contradictory, how typically Pakistani an act is that? We like to act big when we are in fact puny, we like to spend more when we don't have the means to spend at all, we are like the dying breed of the Nawabs (lords) of colonial India who were so disconnected with the problems faced by their people and were so surrounded by the glamour and sycophancy of hangers on that they failed to see their own impending doom. They spent like their is no tomorrow and for them in reality there wasn't one for they were wiped out completely.
I want to remind Mr. Zardari, looking like a budding bridegroom in this picture going to fetch his bride, that the money he is so freely giving away isn't his to begin with so can he please pull back his paws and stop this plunging and looting.
Seriously, I don't feel like reading the paper or listening to the news any more for there is nothing but depressing tidings of how the country is going to the dogs courtesy our so called leaders - god may deliver us from them.....
Comments
Post a Comment