People are dying of disease and hunger while resources are being spent on means of further destruction
ISLAMABAD: Only if our government is willing to take brave steps can our country have a fighting chance against the virus. Citizens have been pleading governments around the world to take the pandemic seriously, but all pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
More upsetting is the fact that while this disease has devoured hundreds of thousands of lives the world over, leaders in most countries are more focused on developing means of destruction rather than finding a cure to this and other diseases. People are dying of disease and hunger while resources are being spent on means of further destruction. India, China and Pakistan seem more obsessed with developing weapons and gaining the ability to destroy each other than using even a fraction of their resources for development of human life. The US is more worried about China and Iran than a pandemic that has killed thousands of people. One wonders why the so-called custodians of the human and civil rights all over the world are more obsessed with finishing the very life they claim to be defending.
I beg leaders around the world to stop developing means of destroying life on this fragile planet and pool in resources to protect human life. In the end, we all have to die but what we leave behind through our actions will determine how we are remembered. World leaders should take a hint from how Hitler or Mussolini are remembered as compared to Mother Tressa or Abdul Sattar Edhi.
Raja Shafaatullah
Published in The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2020.
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