Recent happenings have not only boosted dollar rate, but have also driven away all investments which were coming.
KARACHI: The air of change is looming all over Pakistan, but the question still remains the same. When will this change come and at what cost? Is the cost of this change equivalent to the benefit we will get or will the damage outweigh the benefits? The word change in itself seems so attractive that we have forgotten that this change can hinder our future. The recent happenings are a true proof of the point I am trying to make. The recent happenings have not only boosted the dollar rate, but have also driven away all the investments which were coming into Pakistan. Our stocks market, which once appeared to be highly lucrative to investors, locally and internationally, and was considered one of the best in Asia has become so unpredictable that no one is willing to invest in our market.
Apart from this, development of dams, motorways and other development projects have also stopped. A nation without infrastructure is similar to a writer without a pen. How can we expect our future and current generations to progress if we lack a properly developed infrastructure?
I am not supporting any party, but I am a Pakistani and my heart bleeds when I see that our nation which has been endowed with tremendous resources and capabilities bleed and that too because of ignorance and manipulation. Now decide, is this change worth it? Don’t think as an individual but as a Pakistani as it is not the top notch that are suffering. The most impacted victims to the disease of change are the people from the lower strata.
Change should come but in another way, not by hurting our own country and our own people.
Javeriah Jaleel
Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2014.
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