Let us pray that our politicians find some wisdom in the new year
ISLAMABAD: After the demise of the Quaid-e-Azam, our politicians got sucked into an ugly struggle for power leading to conspiracies and backstabbing, isolating them from public issues. This led to mis- appropriation of the taxpayers’ money and dragging national institutions such as the judiciary, armed forces, and bureaucracy into this game of cat and mouse. Almost seventy-three years have passed by and we as a nation have not been able to get out of this quagmire. Our power circles are still more focused on satisfying their lust for power at any cost. The economy, growth, and the masses suffer badly under the burden of rising inflation, high unemployment and lack of basic amenities. The not- so- new PTI government has been under immense pressure from day one as it is reaping the fruit of its own doings. Just as the PTI did, the current opposition wants the PTI government out of power come what may. Recently, the PPP has offered the MQM-Pakistan ministries in exchange for their help in toppling the federal government. The government, on the other hand, has failed to show solid movement in the direction that would provide any relief to the masses. Another year has passed by, but the government keeps blaming the predecessors for all the ills in the country. Their claims of reduction in current account deficit, increase in forex reserves and improvement in fiscal space mean nothing until people keep getting buried under high prices of gas, petrol and electricity. Still the government does not seem eager to reach out to the opposition to find a civilised way to get off this mess. For the people, yet another year has gone by without any real hope of things getting better on the political front. Let us pray that our politicians find some wisdom in the new year and they sit together to get the country out of the mess we are in.
Raja Shafaatullah
Published in The Express Tribune, January 3rd, 2020.
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