If this misrule and misgovernance continue, the results will be disastrous and we might be unable to recover
ISLAMABAD: Like many others, I disdain the type of democracy we have in vogue in this country nowadays. It is, indeed, ‘democra-zy’ or democratic in name, but in effect, it is a kleptocracy or a monarchy because it has left the people of my country prey to demagogues. These money-crazy men and women who are largely motivated by self-preservation are doing nothing for the common man. For evidence, one can visit my once lovely Larkano, now robbed and ruined, or visit the recently terror-hit Sehwan Sharif.
I am always shocked to see that in one country, there a few hundred families, or may be a few thousand families, bloated with all sorts of comforts, while others who number in the millions are begging at their doors every day. This has continued for decades. How can this sort of inequality and social injustice become acceptable in any civilised and democratic society? Things have begun to get serious for the state and society. If this misrule and misgovernance continue, the results will be disastrous and we might be unable to recover. I do not know when this nasty, brutish and long misrule will end and citizens will no longer be excoriated with inflation, injustice and insecurity, among others.
Hashim Abro
Published in The Express Tribune, March 9th, 2017.
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