Chowrangi

Many elections in Watan-e-Aziz have come and gone. Every alternate time we elect the same thugs, if allowed by the tyrants, otherwise we remained numb in the dictatorial regimes.

Re-election of the same lotas, feudal lords, turn-coats, and plunderers have proved the failure of our nation and have casted a great question mark on our ability of judgment. It seems that the upcoming elections are once again going to reveal a profound failure of our people to stop gross people once again deciding our destinies.

The international community more or less apathetic to the increasing tide of mismanagement in the Pakistan, and now even the not-so-celebrated institutes like Common Wealth, World Bank and International Monetary Fund impose ban on Pakistan half-heartedly. Extremism is on the rise, and the moderate forces which are in heavy majority are keeping themselves to mere rhetoric, and they only say that these militants don’t represent Islam, and that’s it.

Moderate forces are largely silent and prefer to sulk in slumber. This time, after all these sixty years, they have taken a small step by arranging some protests and have suffered clashes with police when the judiciary is suspended, otherwise they have been very dormant on the national horizon, and their this struggle hasn’t caught on with the masses, due to their ill-planning and lack of leadership.

But where is the majority of Pakistani nation? Look all around you. All these people who are passive bystanders are the common people of this country. All these people who are frantically searching for flour, sugar, oil, drinking water, electricity, vegetables, basic rights, jobs, health, clean air while chanting slogans for the same thugs are the common people of Pakistan.

Until and unless common Pakistanis standup and say “Enough is enough”, nothing is going to change, and that can only be done through education and a true leader.

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