No respite being in sight
MAINSTREAM media and social media are the very platforms that are used for the purposes to solve the problems the world or we face. When an issue gets highlighted, a lot of articles and news appear on television as well as on social media, often for days. One is putting opinions while others put possible solutions for that matter. The cycle goes on.
The Covid-19 led pandemic also created traffic in mainstream and social media owing to being free following lockdown. The whole thing is being talked about is major problems leaving minors behind, even though the minor ones get bigger and bigger with time.
The issues that get highlighted are often internal, sometimes, Kashmir and Palestine, and seldom international when a big conference occurs or a pact gets signed ie AUKUS. The dilemma the country is facing are so gruesome and often relevant to the destitute nation that problems are bulldozing and suppressing unconditionally with pace sans any solution being insight.
Some are the problems mentioned below. Inflation: is the very cause leading the poor even poorer. Resultantly, the country’s 30 percent lives below the poverty line. Crossing the poverty line is not so difficult since if a person earns 300 rupees per day is out of the poverty line, now, think, this country is not able to let 300 rupees earn a day.
There is a saying in the Chinese language its translation in English is “If a man is hungry, don’t give him fish, teach him how to catch fish”. So instead of providing packages i.e. Benazir Income Support and Ehsaas Programme, provide short-term skills that may later be a source of income to the households.
The leadership crisis: is another canker in this country since the political stability is so far a distant dream because with a short period this country had undergone three Martial laws. Political stability is the very apparatus behind every country’s prosperity and guarantees to be developed.
Lacking focus on education: being a usual country we should have been as prosperous and developed as other counties, however, the lacking focus on education had kept us behind. The robust education system is the very leading reason to be developed, have a strong economy, stable law and order and the list goes on. The Single National Curriculum seems to be rhetoric to the (blind) nation. Which flaws should be mentioned since there are enormous?
Lack of meritocracy: whoever is straightforward lives life with doldrums since the lack of meritocracy had plunged the country into a deep quagmire systemically and structurally. Merit works and definitely, sans it, the results are unfolded.
Injustice: the legal verdict takes years owing to the crippled judiciary and unable lawyers whose merely toil is to consume the blood of the poor ones. If a file opens, never gets the due conclusion.
How long the nation will pay the penalties of relying on the rhetorically proclaimed slogans of corrupt political elements since nothing had come into the wallet of the nation but agonies, trials and tribulations.
When will the Pakistani nation take a breath of relief since the nation sees injustice and a completely crippled democratic system wherever it sees. The nation sees no respite being in sight so far. All the woes the nation bears should be cut off as succinctly as possible to live life comfortably.
—The writer is contributing columnist, based in in Kandhkot, Sindh.
