THE issue of the NWFP Assembly may have been portrayed as an extinction-level event of the GoP by the PPP, the PML(N) or whatever other three-letter parties that have to add brackets to stand out in the rat race. Furthermore, the grilling of Mr Danyal Aziz of the NRB on ‘Mujahid Online‘ may have been necessary but was it worth it? Did some member of the audience really derive the much-sought-after pleasure in crushing a movement that has taken Pakistan 50 years to “move”?
Look around. You see roads being repaired, bridges being constructed, new buses on new routes, the losing government companies becoming profitable, electricity breakdowns becoming less frequent, the police being much more courteous, exhibitions taking place, people hanging out longer into the night, new TV channels starting up, stock market rising. If this isn’t what you call change, God help us.
Politicians will say what they have been programmed to say this. Leave them in their own backyard and move on. There is no point in banging your head against the wall. In five years the world would have advanced 20 years. Man would be landing on Mars. Biotechnologists would be cloning whatever they can find with a DNA inside. General Motors would be rolling out its first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. Space tourism would be as common as a trip to Hawaii. We keep complaining about how bad the new government is like an old phonogram record from the WWII era.
Today we live in a specialized world. Whoever has gone the extra mile has delivered more than what was asked of him and has learned whatever there was to learn during the way, stands a far greater chance of survival than the person who has lingered on for 30 years hoping for status quo so he can retire in peace. Take any field, be it banking, IT, education, agriculture, medicine or government. There is only room for specialists at the top. The rest only serve as auxiliary power.
So, Mr Danyal Aziz, don’t get frustrated when you are clobbered with a volley of questions in front of a million audience on TV. You know what you want to say. It just doesn’t come out right. You are not alone in this uphill task. All of us face exactly the same situation in every field every day in Pakistan. Try to bring change and you are run aground. Try to throw garbage in the bin and you are frowned upon as if you had antennas coming out of your head.
Illiteracy has been forced upon our people. Intellectuals have tried to bring change and have also succeeded to a certain degree but a lot more needs to be done for a lot longer period than that which was initially planned. There will be cyclones and there will be earthquakes. We just need to ensure a rock-solid foundation able to weather the forces threatening us. The sooner we complete our new home, the safer will be our future generations.
Source : https://www.dawn.com/news/1064778