DAHARKI: Although Pakistan obtained geographical and political independence from foreign rule in 1947, it is still trapped in a web of illiteracy, rampant corruption, inflation, poverty, joblessness, poor governance, militancy, terrorism, lawlessness and poor public services.
The country has continued to lurch from one crisis to another. It is a distressing fact that the common man is still a slave, since it is him, who is gravely affected by the miseries mentioned above; he hasn’t got any independence. There has just been a change of masters, nothing else.
Syed Nisar Ahmed Shah
Published in The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2015.
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