By: Abu Shazil
I live in Pakistan, land
of pure is its name implies. But every day rather every hour I listen, read or
watch a story, entailing social bankruptcy. My society is deteriorating so
rapidly, when I think of this I feel a chilling shock wave in my spinal cord. Today
an old pensioner of Pakistan Railway died, awaiting pension, in front of a Bank
where dozens of senior citizens spent night, waiting for bank to open so that
they could draw their pension, hard earned pension. The pensioner's wait
lingered beyond his life and in struggle to hand over his pension book to bank
authorities in a crowed suffered suffocation leading to his death. Interestingly
today my legislators have passed senior citizens bill, which will look after
the interest of senior citizens of Pakistan. Does mere passing of bill will
save the senior citizens from the atrocities of these folks to whom state authorities
have failed to pay pension to these folks for many months. They are so hard pressed financially that they
decided to stay outside banks with the hope they will get a meager amount
called pension to ease off their sufferings at
least for few days.
I would like to ask from
my government, is this GOOD GOVERNANCE
for which they have been
spending billions of rupees? In my books its sheer mismanagement, irresponsible
attitude, governmental failure, blah blah… It appears that my fellow countrymen
sitting in public offices have stopped working. Simply stopped performed their
duties for which they are being paid for. Don't they think this act of theirs
falls into the act of professional dishonesty? What difference does it make? My public servants,
who pose themselves as BOSSES have never worked honestly. Had they done that
the country's development index would have shown that. My GDP growth would have
elucidated this fact. My progress indicator would have show upward trends. But unfortunately
that is not the case. All the indicators are showing downward trends, precariously
falling numbers.
We have entered into a state
of bankruptcy. Financial bankruptcy, moral bankruptcy, ethical bankruptcy and SOCIAL BANKRUPTCY.
Be aware that "The
strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its masses”. Those
nations which do not enforce accountability, act in preemption, which do not
plan in advance and are not ready to perform their assigned duties, tasks
judiciously, vanish from the globe. They lose their right to exist.
LETS MEND OUR WAYS BEFORE
ITS TOO LATE
