Other than mere rhetoric and giving statements, no political party, including PTI, has raised its voice in parliament
SUKKUR: This is a government which, like its predecessors, the PPP and Pervez Musharraf regimes, is a regime of traders, stock exchange brokers, real estate developers, big retail and wholesale dealers, contractors and business cartels. Furthermore, it is committed to facilitating the rich in tax evasion and providing them relief through SROs. Nobody is interested in the procurement of transfer of technology, nor in the development of education and healthcare.
If anybody has doubt, just imagine giving a 100 per cent pay raise to top bureaucrats, who have failed miserably in tax collection, regulation, law enforcement, missing all substantive targets and implementation of laws to prevent the flight of capital and institutionalised corruption and pilferage. Other than mere rhetoric and giving statements, no political party, including the PTI, has raised its voice in parliament, or made an effort to launch a public campaign to stop these nefarious acts, which in any other country would qualify as a conspiracy against the state.
Every institution of the state, including the CDA, which comes directly under the federal government, is an organisation dominated by vested interests; where members of the general public, who in 1989 were declared successful for plot allotment through balloting in Sector E-12/4, are still waiting desperately to get possession even after almost 26 years, while thousands of plots allotted much later to their employees, bureaucrats and powerful pressure groups have been developed and handed over. No government, either elected or authoritarian, seems to be bothered about 200 million Pakistanis.
Aneela Chandio
Published in The Express Tribune, June 11th, 2015.
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