Any amendments in constitution inked in gold, studded with pearls, rubies, diamonds and incensed with best of perfumes is worthless if not implemented in its true spirit. Constitution may come and laws may be amended; these turn into tyranny if executed poorly to serve the vested objectives of corrupt elites and corrupt rulers. The poor have suffered enough and have no patience left for the putrefied corrupts and corruption during last four decades and especially during last two years. People want the recovery of each penny of thousands of trillions rupees plundered and want to see the corrupt punished.
Despite retaining English slavishly for 63 years after independence, we have still to learn how to use it correctly, properly, politely, courteously and diplomatically. Government, tax and bank notices are a glaring, galling example of it. Full of menacing threats, as if addressed to criminals, and not civil citizens’ clients and customers with whose taxes and deposits these institutions are run. Customer relations are a far cry from such conduct. The latest is computer composed, unsigned obnoxious letters. Customers, clients and taxpayers are not beggars but the backbone and mainstay of the society, State and government. For God’s sake, restrain such misbehaviour if you want a positive image.
Law and order has always been a problem in upper Sindh including Larkana, Dadu, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Sukkur and oher districts of the province. However, the security situation, to a great extent, came under control after the PPP came into power. Of course, isolated incidents were reported therein but now once again law and order situation has gone out of control. It is reported that unemployment and poverty are main reasons behind the increasing incidents of kidnapping for ransom, murders, dacoities, child marriages, etc in the upper Sindh.
A few efficient and dedicated police officers have proved their mettle to control the crime but once they are out of the scene, the situation is reported to have even worsened in those areas. It is an established truth that the police is unable to do anything untill and unless the tribal chieftains, the crime designers, who sit in big cities and harbour hardened criminal,s and other crime-fiendly elemenst are not reined in, nabbed and put behind the bars.
However, sustainble solution to the problem lies in the improvment of agriculture, which has deteriorated due to shortage of water, expansion of agri-base industries and sending of skilled and sem-skilled youth, who have nothing to do but became tarpped to commit crime, to overseas.
An individual’s role in society can vary with the number themes the characters exhibit. The role of an individual becomes more complicated when there are signs of cruelties, weakness and desires for justice. It is the Individual who operate different functions or performs different tasks in a group or society. The administrator, an individual who has the power of leadership and authority to assigns jobs to several individuals in a certain group, is actually the main body and representative of the group. This leadership quality of an individual plays a vital role.
The individual may influence the society or only the people around him. A great example of such individual who influenced a society of Muslims in the sub-continent is Allama Iqbal. Similarly, an example of excellent leadership of an individual is Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. These individuals made a history. An individual at various places represents his group, organization, community, society or his nation. The traits of an individual are very important and should be brought into consideration before making him representative. Sometimes, the people choose an individual to be their representative. This single (sole or particular) individual symbolizes the unit to which he belongs to. His feats, communication, intelligence, ethics and education are being judged by the people outside the unit.
Such image creators either spoil the dignity of the nation or boost its esteem. We all are individuals who reflect the culture of Pakistan and the nobility of Islam. We should be careful of our actions as they show our traits. Being an individual serve the nation and work collectively to get back our pride in the world.
A new phase of load-shedding is being observed across the country. Though our country is a nuclear power and we are blessed so many natural resources, like coal, gas, etc yet we can not manage energy crisis. Imagine in 21st centaury a country where electricity remains shut down about 6-8 hours in cities and 10-14 hours in rular areas. How is it possible for a nation to make progress? Our economy is going down day by day. No doubt there are many other factors for this but due to energy crisis our economy is suffering badly.
For government this is not an alarming issue because they believe that there are many other issues that must be addressed earlier. What these issues are? The government never explained them. Moreover, incapable advisors and ministers of power are more interested to take short-term steps than long-term policies. If we could not control the energy’s crisis then our nation would have to pay unbearable price for it. So, we need to build new dams and utilize all other available resources.
The unresolved Kashmir has affected psychological, social and economical problems among the people of conflict while the 20- year long military violence in Kashmir left an indelible mark on the life of women in Kashmir who are suffering physically, socially, psychologically and economically. The rape/ molestation have been used as a weapon of war in Kashmir where people are peacefully struggling for freedom sine last 62 years. After 1990, the Indian troops tried to break a defiant peoples’ determination by raping women. The process continues unabated the official promises of ‘zero tolerance’ notwithstanding. On 10th December 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has become a universal standard for defending and promoting human rights.
Rape or molestation which is painful for one and all and Kashmiri people are facing this ugly and inhuman act due to the unresolved Kashmir conflict which has completed sixty two years, the police men and troopers continue to pursue old strategy. Black laws like AFSPA gives special powers to the Indian army and other men in uniform deployed in Kashmir and no penal action can be taken against the military and police forces without sanction of Indian Government. Even the Jammu and Kashmir “Chief Minister” can’t punish the soldiers, even if proved guilty in a court of law, without New-Delhi’s consent.
The Indian Government is signatory to Geneva Conventions and has been violating the said conventions particularly in Jammu and Kashmir. As the custodian of Geneva Conventions, what action has world conscience and peace loving people taken so far against unabated Indian state terrorism?” The so-called Human Rights Commission of the Kashmir territory sponsored by the authorities has registered 5054 complaints of human rights violations since its inception in 1997. “Commission has registered 5054 complaints, the Commissions statement said on December 10, 2009.
Kashmiri women who are facing the worst sexual violence in the world at the hands of the Indian troops, paramilitary forces and police personnel. The sexual violence has been routinely perpetuated on Kashmiri women, with 11.6 percent prevalence of the same in Kashmir. Ironically, the figure is higher than that of Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Chechnya, which was reported by a study conducted by Medecins Sans Frontiers in mid-2005. Some non-governmental organisations put the figure of rape and molestation cases to 9,894 from January 1989 to November 2008. The factual figure goes higher as many such cases remain unreported due to the social stigma and reprisal of authority sponsored agencies. For those cases, that are reported, most of them are not brought to any logical conclusion, giving an air to the crime. This stands well indicated by chain of inhuman incidents that have occurred from time to time against women of Kashmir.
“The test of civilization is the estimate of women”, G. W. Curtis said. While reserving Parliament and State Legislate seats for women in India is welcome, it would be naive to expect that the women’s reservation bill, that has been hanging for the last 14 years, would automatically ensure the empowerment of women. No doubt, women in male dominated Indian society have been marginalised and they need to be given equal opportunities, yet it would indeed be an exaggeration to say that the reservation bill is the best way to ensure gender sensitisation and equality. Though many argue that this piece of legislation is the beginning of a new dawn for India, yet it would be naive to put much faith in the bill’s ability to bring about genuine female emancipation.
The euphoria caused among women politicians and elitist political groups on the passage of this measure providing for 33 percent reservation of women is rather curious. How can they assume that reserving one third of the seats in elected bodies can actually lead to women empowerment? How can they be oblivious to discrimination and backwardness the bill seeks to undo? Instead of attempting to reverse the effects of marginalisation and discrimination, it will actually end up introducing reverse discrimination. Will the 33 percent reservation in parliament actually change the lives of women? It is well known that irrespective of gender, elected representatives are bound to obey the dictates of the party on various policies and issues. So they will not be in a position to influence budgetary allotment for women and child welfare. Only women who fight and win elections will benefit from the reservation. But this will not automatically lead to their emancipation, nor will it change the culture of corrupt politicians of anything, such legislation will only turn women legislators into pawns of their political husbands, who will be only too happy to act behind the scene.
For instance, there are women who head village Panchayats, but in reality they are mere proxies for their husbands or other male member of the family. There is also the danger in women’s reservation that dynastic politics will get a fillip making it easier for male politicians to sneak in their spouses, sisters, daughters and other female kins into the portals of Parliament. One wonders how can bringing in more women from affluent families into State legislatures amount to rooting out discrimination?
The present version of the women’s bill has other serious drawbacks. A deserving women candidate would be empowered for only 5 years to represent the constituency. Once her term ends, she has to vacate her seat. This will create hurdles for non elitist female candidates who have to start from scratch for a grassroots connect. Having said that, the bill is not slated to make a difference to the overall empowerment of women and appears to be mere tokenism. So pinning high hopes on the bill would be entirely misplaced. There is no guarantee that reserving seats for women will change these equations.
Everyone wants to be successful in life. Everyone wants respect, fame, a nice job, a happy family, enough money for living a content life, an achievement in short success but the question comes how can we get it? Success is actually a state in which a person feels that he or she has reached his or her desired destination and others also consider him or her successful.
To be successful one need to know the ways to get success. We have always heard that hard work is the key to success; but it’s only the hard work that makes a person successful, there are other keys as well to unlock success. Sincerity, Interest, Time management, Concentration, Planning, Conversion of desire into need or passion and most importantly God’s help which is actually the master key work collectively for success.
Sincerity is the foremost entity which helps in acquiring success. Being sincere refers to be sincere with you as well as with others. If you are not sincere to yourself, you can’t be sincere to others. Being sincere means identifying your goal and struggling to achieve it. It also means to help others without expecting anything in return. Make it your joy to give something to others as it brings pleasure. Interest is important before dreaming of success, doing a work without interest doesn’t bring happiness to the doer whereas happiness in what you are doing leads to success.
Time management refers to the skill and techniques to accomplish a specific goal within the time period. A lot of people are hard working but they lack skill of time management. Always calculate time for completing any task. If you are not able to complete a single task within the time limit you will lose self confidence and if you won’t be confident enough it’s uncertain to say that you can get success. A major problem takes place when you don’t plan the steps for achieving goals or things according to their priority. Preparing a list according to the values of aim helps you to work efficiently. It helps to judge your potential.
Desire is just a wish but there’s a difference of intensity in desire and need. A person must adapt his or her upright desires into values and needs. You can survive if your wish is not fulfilled but can’t relax if you don’t get your needs. You will give your best to get hold of your needs. After following all these stuff, you must pray to God for your success, as God only help those who help themselves. If God is be for you, who can be against you? God is where the love is and where God and love are, there is happiness.
