A matter of sovereignty (II)

We are naked, homeless and hungry. May be we should increase our sovereignty ‘rent’, to cover our basic needs.

GUILDFORD, UK: The last time I checked the title to Pakistan’s sovereignty deed stood transferred to China, so I really don’t know what the fuss with regard to this issue is all about. My fellow Pakistanis should know that as per official statements, the country’s economy is not doing well at all and relies heavily on money borrowed from the World Bank, the IMF, the Asian Development Bank, Japan, America, China or the European Union states. So what ‘sovereignty’ are we really talking about when we say that we will “not compromise on the defence of our frontiers and sovereignty”?

Our brothers and sisters are yet to recover from the last flood and struggling with the present flood. We are naked, homeless and hungry. May be we should increase our sovereignty ‘rent’, so to speak, to cover our basic needs.

Anwar Khan

Published in The Express Tribune, October 1^st,  2011.