The increasing burden of foreign debt,
decreasing the value of the rupee, increasing prices, black hoarding has made it
impossible for the people to make both ends meet. On the eve of the Month of
Fasting i.e. Ramazan, many hoarders, middlemen followed their old custom
of creating an artificial shortage of fruits, vegetables, and other eatables in
order to earn extra profit. This increased the problems for the govt. The
opposition parties facing charges of corruption and booked under several cases
have started exploiting the increasing chaos among the public for their political
interests. Internally this situation started as soon as the govt. took oath in
the Captial and Punjab. People already facing financial could not get the
relief which they were expecting from elected govt. as Prime Minister and his
team as announced in their addresses before the elections. The pressure over
the Prime Minister increased and objections were also raised over his choice of
Cabinet Ministers and important postings of bureaucracy. The changes made by the
Prime Minister due to the pressure and criticism of opposition created unrest
in the public. The opposition that has been alleging establishment for bringing
Imran Khan into power, its exploited this situation. Especially the propaganda
cells on the social media blamed Pakistan army for the problems of the public
that while selecting Imran Khan for Prime Ministership army did not take into
account that whether he is capable of running the govt. These enemies of
Pakistan army exploited the situation over the remaining terrorism, target
killing, extortion, chaos, etc. for their propaganda against Pakistan army.
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Asif Ali Zardari announced to come on roads against the Imran Khan govt. |
If
we look beyond the internal situation across the borders there is no hope as
well. On the one hand, India is busy in the genocide of Kashmiris martyring
Kashmiris on daily basis in order to change the demography of Indian Held
Kashmir (IHK). Children are being blinded by pellet guns (shotguns). No
one is ready on the Indian war crimes in IHK. India is violating ceasefire in
order to pressurize Pakistan and please extremist Hindus. On a daily basis, the people living in the Azad Kashmir are targeted by the Indian army. Pakistan
army has to respond to the unprovoked Indian shelling. In the proper words,
Pakistan army is in the active war over Line of Control (LoC).
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People of Pakistan worried for the utilities price hike |
Similar to the situation is over the Western border of the Pakistan where Enemies have
established terrorist training camps for infiltration into Balochistan, KPK and
tribal areas for terrorism. Soldiers and officers of the Pakistan army are busy in
neutralizing these terrorists while sacrificing their lives. The fence is also
being erected over the border. Enemies of Pakistan want to stop the erection of
the fence so that their terrorists can easily enter into Pakistan. Whether this
is the war against terrorism, erection of fences or skirmishes over LoC, the
expenses over these activities is inevitable for the security of the
Pakistanis. The decreasing value of Pakistani rupee has also laid pressure over
the defense of Pakistan as well. The world financial institutions want Pakistan
to decrease the defense budget so that weak Pakistan can be easily persuaded to
make the decisions under their pressure.
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US Navy sends USS Theodore Roosevelt toward Persian Gulf |
Obviously,
Public going through the wrath of increasing prices does not realize the value
of defense. Their main problem is employment and making both ends meet.
If we sacrifice the security agencies for the food, what would be the results
this is not difficult to predict. In such a situation our country cannot afford
any type of chaos and unrest whether it is of the financial nature or
political. This will pave way for the enemy to further its conspiracies against
Pakistan and attack Pakistan. Many treacherous elements are attempting to
hijack the protests against inflation into protests against the Pakistan army.
Foreign Media has become active keeping in mind the internal economic
problems of Pakistan. The notables are the Jewish lobby and Pro-Indian American
Think-Tanks. In the past when the American contractors were present under the
cover of Black Water and TTP, these lobbies pressurized America to take over
the nuclear assets of Pakistan as they may fall into the hands of terrorists,
so American Army should quickly make a decision. Now, once again Western media
has started exploiting the situation to pressurize America.
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PML-N protesting in the National Assembly |
In
all the big political parties of Pakistan there are such experienced
parliamentarians who have special respect not only in their own friends but
in opposition as well. This is their duty that they should leave aside their
political differences and chalk out a plan to take out Pakistan from the current
economic crisis. There should be no concept of giving and take over the
accountability of the corrupt. All the respect and prestige of our political
elite class is due to Pakistan. If Pakistan is strong then they can enjoy
this status.
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Opposition Parties devise strategies against govt. in Bilawal's Iftar Party |
The
hoarding and black-marketing can be also curbed by these politicians. Every year
the hoarding of fruits, vegetables and other eatables and selling them on
higher prices in Ramazan has become a routine of these greedy businessmen. All
over the world, the businessmen sell their products below their cost in this
Islamic month considering that by serving the fasting Muslims they are earing
the real profit. Even in the non-Muslim countries businessmen community
arranges special discounts for Muslims. However, in Pakistan, these greedy
businessmen take Ramazan as an opportunity to earn extra profits. they are
neither afraid of law nor of the day of judgment. All these artificially high
prices take a toll from the public. No matter who is in power, opposition exploits
this situation for the point scoring but no one takes serious steps to curb
this situation. By establishing Ramzan Bazars, govt. issues license to those
businessmen who do not become part of Ramzan Bazar to loot the public. This
should be stopped here, proper laws should be made and implemented through
planning. But who will do this? The political elite has no concerns over the
economic crisis nor they feel the artificial inflation in the month of
Ramazan. The devaluation of rupee is also due to the greediness present within
the country which shows that problem is not the economic crisis but moral
bankruptcy of the nation…
Written by Khalid Baig,
Published in Daily Nawa-i-Waqt,
Date: 23 May 2019.
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