One cannot remain aloof, or safe, from what happens in any part of the country because the eventual impact on the human life is social, economic and cultural, let alone the political consequence. That’s how the citizens of Rawalpindi and Islamabad think about unpleasant events of Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and tribal areas.
The general consensus of opinion on suicide attacks, blasts and loot and arson is that the common man is the main sufferer along with the foreign and local investors who turn shy of floating money in new ventures which are of great help to job-seeking youth. The twin cities enjoy special significance from socio-economic point of view because portals of power have been built here. But there’s another notable aspect: people from different walks of life, including workers of private and public sectors, have opportunities to meet and exchange views weekly, if not daily, and they represent all provinces in an atmosphere of brotherhood. Financial problems, solved or not yet solved, also create in them a sense of thinking alike against the exploiters, self-seeking politicians and the enemies of the country, whoever they may be. The citizens have not forgotten the Karachi happenings of last December 28: more than 40 deaths due to suicide attack on the Ashura procession and the series of fires that engulfed markets on M A Jinnah Road in the wake of bombing and acts of arson at Bolton Market and four nearby points. Burning of around 3,000 shops amounted to economic disaster of thousands of families. Hundreds of traders of the twin cities have economic links with businessmen of the area targeted by anti-social elements. People here still think there’s some hidden agenda of the violence perpetrators. We’re paying for our wrong-doings of the last three decades and what we’re now doing in disregard of social, economic and political rights of the masses, we’re after ‘paisa’, little caring for each other’s weal, says Khalid Khan of an agricultural research council based in Islamabad. His mother tongue is Pushto but speaks Urdu fluently, and is proud of having learnt the Holy Quran by heart. He believes in unity of all Pakistanis. Old and young people, who get together for an evening gossip, endorse the view that Almighty God is angry because of our faults, mistakes and our sins. This is punishment to us that prices are not being controlled; hoarders, smugglers and profiteers have been let free; and there seems no tightening up of laws on matters like malingering or inefficiency amongst ministers and bureaucrats, any form of bribery or corruption or anti-social activity. What has distanced the government from the common man is the bitter fact that an ordinary consumer has to pay Rs18 for a ‘pao’ (250 grams) of sugar and Rs31/34 for a kilo of ‘atta’. The residents of different localities of the twin cities protest over the liberty the government has given to sugar mills to make a profit of Rs7.5 billion in a month. Reportedly, there was a sugar stock of 1.5 million tons by last November 30, but the price of sugar was raised soon from Rs40 to Rs60 in December, which now sells at Rs70/75 per kilo in bazaar. Similarly, a 20-kilogram bag of wheat flour is being sold at Rs600/620. Meat prices are beyond the reach of men, women and children of the lower middle class. How can a poor man buy beef at Rs240/260 and chicken at Rs105/120? The rulers also getting their share of punishment: they’re being criticized, may cursed, by people whose majority, according to an objective survey, have lost confidence in them. The citizens have a number of questions: why the men and women in power haven’t learnt any lesson from their past blunders? Why were they so divided selfishly over construction of small and big dams? Why didn’t they have an already thought out plan to solve the water and power crises? The people of Rawalpindi-Islamabad, like patriots of other towns and villages, had experienced electricity and gas loadshedding in 1990s, and they had expected of the future elected governments to rid them of the present worst kind of outages. Why the politicians, keen to capture power with the blessing of a foreign power, didn’t plan earlier to meet the people’s demand for food, energy and fuel? The masses seem to have realised the need for uniting against the looters, the sugar barons and the feudal landlords who have their say in the so-called democratic parliament to tame the government as they wish. They only wait for someone to lead them as the Quaid-i-Azam did during the struggle for independence and freedom from rulers of imperialistic mindset. They are, as one gathers from the people’s gossips, one in their will to fight for the homeland as ‘ghazis’ and die as ‘martyrs’ as their brothers (soldiers) are doing.
The general consensus of opinion on suicide attacks, blasts and loot and arson is that the common man is the main sufferer along with the foreign and local investors who turn shy of floating money in new ventures which are of great help to job-seeking youth. The twin cities enjoy special significance from socio-economic point of view because portals of power have been built here. But there’s another notable aspect: people from different walks of life, including workers of private and public sectors, have opportunities to meet and exchange views weekly, if not daily, and they represent all provinces in an atmosphere of brotherhood. Financial problems, solved or not yet solved, also create in them a sense of thinking alike against the exploiters, self-seeking politicians and the enemies of the country, whoever they may be. The citizens have not forgotten the Karachi happenings of last December 28: more than 40 deaths due to suicide attack on the Ashura procession and the series of fires that engulfed markets on M A Jinnah Road in the wake of bombing and acts of arson at Bolton Market and four nearby points. Burning of around 3,000 shops amounted to economic disaster of thousands of families. Hundreds of traders of the twin cities have economic links with businessmen of the area targeted by anti-social elements. People here still think there’s some hidden agenda of the violence perpetrators. We’re paying for our wrong-doings of the last three decades and what we’re now doing in disregard of social, economic and political rights of the masses, we’re after ‘paisa’, little caring for each other’s weal, says Khalid Khan of an agricultural research council based in Islamabad. His mother tongue is Pushto but speaks Urdu fluently, and is proud of having learnt the Holy Quran by heart. He believes in unity of all Pakistanis. Old and young people, who get together for an evening gossip, endorse the view that Almighty God is angry because of our faults, mistakes and our sins. This is punishment to us that prices are not being controlled; hoarders, smugglers and profiteers have been let free; and there seems no tightening up of laws on matters like malingering or inefficiency amongst ministers and bureaucrats, any form of bribery or corruption or anti-social activity. What has distanced the government from the common man is the bitter fact that an ordinary consumer has to pay Rs18 for a ‘pao’ (250 grams) of sugar and Rs31/34 for a kilo of ‘atta’. The residents of different localities of the twin cities protest over the liberty the government has given to sugar mills to make a profit of Rs7.5 billion in a month. Reportedly, there was a sugar stock of 1.5 million tons by last November 30, but the price of sugar was raised soon from Rs40 to Rs60 in December, which now sells at Rs70/75 per kilo in bazaar. Similarly, a 20-kilogram bag of wheat flour is being sold at Rs600/620. Meat prices are beyond the reach of men, women and children of the lower middle class. How can a poor man buy beef at Rs240/260 and chicken at Rs105/120? The rulers also getting their share of punishment: they’re being criticized, may cursed, by people whose majority, according to an objective survey, have lost confidence in them. The citizens have a number of questions: why the men and women in power haven’t learnt any lesson from their past blunders? Why were they so divided selfishly over construction of small and big dams? Why didn’t they have an already thought out plan to solve the water and power crises? The people of Rawalpindi-Islamabad, like patriots of other towns and villages, had experienced electricity and gas loadshedding in 1990s, and they had expected of the future elected governments to rid them of the present worst kind of outages. Why the politicians, keen to capture power with the blessing of a foreign power, didn’t plan earlier to meet the people’s demand for food, energy and fuel? The masses seem to have realised the need for uniting against the looters, the sugar barons and the feudal landlords who have their say in the so-called democratic parliament to tame the government as they wish. They only wait for someone to lead them as the Quaid-i-Azam did during the struggle for independence and freedom from rulers of imperialistic mindset. They are, as one gathers from the people’s gossips, one in their will to fight for the homeland as ‘ghazis’ and die as ‘martyrs’ as their brothers (soldiers) are doing.
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