Loud Thinking

نہ سمجھو گے تو مٹ جاوگے اے حکمرانوں تمھاری داستان تک نہ ھوگی داستانوں میں

Dooms day for the honest people of Pakistan.

What is happening in Pakistan. Are the rulers so naive that they are being misled by their core team, to commit absolutely stupid mistakes? Are the rulers so ignorant that they are not aware about the fact that they can not extract any further juice from the public, after it has been put through the juice extraction machine, many times over, since the take over of the PMLN government?

In India, Petrol price cut (due to the reduction of international oil prices from $117 to $113) by IndiaRs 3.05 per litre (A Times of India news published on 30 Sept. 2013).

Now, look how exactly on the same day, PMLN’s government has treated the Pakistani nation, by increasing the electricity rates for the domestic consumers by 40-80%, and instead of reducing the petrol prices, it has been further enhanced by PKR. 4.12/L.

The only argument with the PMLN’s government, for increasing the power rates is that how can expensive electricity be supplied, at a less rate and as such, general public can not be given subsidy on electricity? This argument does not hold water, in view of the fact that; instead of recovering electricity bills from those people, who are involved in power theft, at an ultra massive level (above 40% line losses as per NEPRA), the government has adopted the easy way of recovering the enhanced bill, by punishing those 60% honest bill payers, who have never been involved in the power theft.

Everybody, even the layman knows in our country that our electricity is costing very high, just due to the world’s highest ratio of theft or line losses.

As far as, the matter of subsidy is concerned, our rulers are enjoying all types of subsidies for the officially allowed luxuries even to their families, as well. Moreover, poor masses are going hungry, as they can not buy ROTI being sold in the market at Rs.8-12; but our parliamentarians are getting 5 star quality food, at highly subsidised rates, where they are charged just Re.1 (Rupee one only) for a Roti.

What a system, where a poor citizen (Mr. Ishaq Dar himself admitted when he spoke in a seminar on 9 September, 2013 that more than 60 percent Pakistani population or 110 million people were living below the poverty line, which was One Dollar a day) is sleeping hungry with his entire family, where people are committing suicides on daily basis, due to the extremely harsh economic hardships; but these poor people are being made to pay for the free rides of the public representatives?

Today is a dooms day for the honest people, who in fact, deserved a reduction in the petrol prices, have been punished by the government, with a historic rise in the power and petrol rates.

Isn’t it a fit case for a Suo Moto action, as was done in the case of high sugar and petrol prices, in the last PPP era?

Since, this democratically elected parliament, has again failed to shield the masses from the tyranny and excesses of the government, the people are fully justified in looking towards the others, to come to their rescue.

For the general public, it matters the least that who rules them, but what matters them the most, is how they are ruled.

In view of the foregoing, I forewarn the Pakistani ruling elite and all the public representatives, to beware of the day, when people will welcome any other system with open hands, which will not be so cruel and tyrannical, like the current decadent system of governance.

Moreover, the Honourable Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Sahab (Hope you remember the solemn commitment of your government on the floor of the house that no mini budget will be coming during the year) is again reminded that, as forewarned earlier, your honour should immediately shunt out those advisors, who are hell bent to ensure that Mian Nawaz Sharif be remembered in the history of the country, as the most hated, cruel and tyrannical ruler of Pakistan, who snatched even the last piece of the dry bread from not one or two persons, but crores (minimum 11 crores) of poor masses.