Answering a critical question
It is unfortunate that over a period of time the
good governance in Pakistan has lost much of its shine of peoples’ love,
respect and fear of the rulers. Owing to the misdeeds of its leaders, both
civil and military, who came to power from time to time the corruption and the
crime that forms up at the top seeps down below, who is there at the top? It is
not Mhaja, Saja or Gama. It is the Sardar, the Landlord, the Wadera, the
Chaudhri, the Khan, the Industrialist all p1t together and kiown as the
aristocratic Feudal who wield unlimited influence and are empowered with money,
political strength and escorted by a couple of Kalashnikov bearing
bad-characters. They commit heinous crimes of all sorts and manage to get away
with them easily. The Police, the Judiciary and other executive arms beefed up
with common man’s taxes either loolc,on helplessly or just look the other way.
This also encourages the Mhajas, Sajas and Gamas to emerge from their hidings
get inflated into a menace of enormous proportions and start posing threat to
the life, honour and property of the common man. Their patrons go unpunished
for even the most serious crimes. These lesser scoundrels too are mercifully
let off since the law order enforcing authorities of the government do not feel
morally justified to take any action against them as well. The social scenario
of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan thus reverts to the ugly barbaric past of
the human kind. The government no longer enjoys the love and respect of the
people and no one is now afraid of the heavy hand of law and order because that
hand is unable to move even a little finger.
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