How was year 2011 for Pakistan
Posted by K. Shahzad in Inside Story on January 1, 2012
Year 2011 was really not encouraging for Pakistan and it’s people. There were lots of discouraging events but few developments which came as future’s ray of hope for people of Pakistan. Lets have a look on few events and other stuff of 2011 which directly impact the country or its people.
US Drone Attacks Continued
US Drone attacks were continued through out the year in year 2o11. Pakistan’s Ruling party PPP was not able to negotiate a solution or strategy in this matter. Though US says these attacks are aimed at terrorists but on ground along with any terrorists the attacks also caused the death of women, children and lots of innocent people.
Ruling government kept pretending to opposing them but have not took any solid steps. My point is even if culprits are there the country’s own government should take action via their army not any unmanned Arial vehicle controlled by someone sitting on other side of globe. Biggest concern here is loss of lives of innocent people of Pakistan.
May 01, 2011: US invasion to take out Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad Pakistan
Again a dark day for the country because US forces were able to invade thousand’s of miles inside the country without alerting the Pakistani forces. On other side Pakistani forces were not able to detect this invasion, some say they may have been ordered to keep quite.
Its not that we any way support or supported Osama but the point is in this operation Pakistan army would have been a role and a joint operation would have been taken care of things.
Also, the fact that Pakistani radars were not able to detect US helicopters was most upsetting for people of Pakistan, brought the sense of national insecurity among the people.
Ruling Pakistan peoples party was also blamed much later as they were unable to respond quickly and correctly. Also later found changing their stance on issue multiple times. As people demanded that Pakistan forces should have been part of the operation, how our close ally can invade our airspace and run their own operation in our soil without letting the local forces know.
Difficulties of People of Pakistan:
2011 was overall very bad for people of Pakistan and most of people of the country are agreed on a thing that if ruling party (PPP) would have put some of its attention on real problems of people of Pakistan things would have been much better. Lets see what people of Pakistan faced.
Electricity Shortages: Year 2011 started with electricity shortages and worst load shedding of all time and ending with the same situation. Summers were worst period for Pakistan people where in some areas load shedding of even 16 to 18 hours were witnessed but the winters were also worst of all with up 8 hours of load shedding. Prices of electricity were also kept increasing.
Electricity shortages caused losses to industry, in turn causing many closures and loss of jobs for people of Pakistan. Increasing the joblessness and poverty. No solid steps again by government this year and things only gone worse.
Natural Gas/CNG Shortages: Pakistan again saw worst of all time natural gas shortages. First Government kept encouraging the transporters to convert onto the CNG and as this happened the Gas gradually gone short. Also it effected the house hold consumers. Now situation is that in most country of people of Pakistan are not able cook food on peak hours and mostly have no gas at all when required. Seen people going on alternates like wood even in cities.
This again caused closures for may industries leaving people jobless and more people pushed below the poverty line.
Inflation: Gas, Electricity, Fuel and food prices gone too much up and only due to mismanagement of government of the country. Specially profit on fuel is being made without realizing that increase in fuel prices fire the inflation rates as everything have to be transported or even fuel is used in industry where goods are made.
Human Right Violations: Worst human right violations were seen in Pakistan this year.
- In Khroatabad some national security officials opened fire on few foreigners, suspecting them as threat and later found out they were unarmed. This incident killed few of those people.
- Later a doctor was also killed recently who had told after examining the bodies that those foreigners were killed by the bullet of security officials. Though doctor was receiving threats and he had mentioned this, he was even attacked earlier but government of country was not able to protect him.
- In June 2o11 and unarmed boy despite ending up in custody of rangers in Karachi was killed by rangers brutally. They were able to make case against boy and getting away with it easily but later a video revealed by a Pakistani professional news cameraman, now these ranger officials are arrested and charged with a murder.
- Law ‘n’ Order Situation of Karachi have been flaming issue of Pakistan this year. Government claimed many victories but the truth is they did not took any fair actions to restore Law ‘n’ Order situation of Karachi. Still people are being killed as thousand killed in year 2011 in Karachi.
Corruption
People of Pakistan agree on the one thing that year 2011 was the year when corruption not only prevailed but it took down some of very valuable departments/assets of Pakistan. Among the countless stories few are as follows.
Pakistan Railways: Pakistan railways saw worst of all times in year 2011 due to internal corruption. Again lead by individuals from PPP. Who didn’t seem interested in making things better in contrast we heard statements from minister like in
‘Iran’ and ‘Afghanistan’ there is no railway, they are surviving.
This is not from someone who is xyz of government, but its the person who’s job is to take care of department and create new possibilities.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA): Condition of PIA was no different than the railways. Corruption was on peaks. Due to lake of management number of planes were grounded, people faced delays even cancellations of flights. PIA was not even able to transport the Pilgrims to Saudi Arabia and back home with causing troubles for them.
Hajj Controversy: Second consecutive years pilgrims from Pakistan were charged much more in contrast they were provided worst facilities and people were not fully able to concentrate at their worship. Again it was obvious that corruption took place this year too and people were not provided with promised facilitates.
Pakistan Floods
Again 2011 floods struck the remote areas badly. Government again seems hesitating in reaching out the people and enough was not done. Private organizations and some foreign aid though reached to the victums. Also people delt stuff on their own but government did not had any thing special for people. Even on some placed people with power manipulated the water ways in a way that they saved their lands but on cast of poor who had much more to loose, government did nothing in that case as well.
Cricket World Cup 2011
Cricket world cup 2011 was the uniting force for people people of Pakistan. This was time hearts of Pakistanis were beating together. Though Pakistan team was not able to bring the world cup home but being the runners up in times when country is passing through the turmoils was achievement of team captain Afridi and rest of the players. Pakistanis all over country closely followed the tournament together, even at points the tournament acted as uniting force for Pakistanis when they celebrated the victories together.
People of Pakistan Standing up for change
Things took one positive turn when people of Pakistan stood up for change with a new leader Imran Khan who have his Political Party called Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) which means ‘Pakistan Justice Movement’ in English language. People of Pakistan believe their new revolutionary leader can deliver them what they need. Imran Khan was former Pakistani cricketer who brought the World Cup for nation back in 1992.
Later he came up with world’s only Cancer Hospital of its kind, which is from private sector, treats 75% of its patients fully free and world’s best research is going on in this hospital. Imran Khan also came up with only private sector university of Pakistan which is situated in rural areas, offers scholarships to 80% of its students and gives the degree of a renounced foreign university.
As its now obvious Imran Khan have pretty much making things happen for people of Pakistan so people of Pakistan turned to this new leader this year. Educated Youth first realized him as their appropriate next leader who can make all the good changes in near future, polls on social media sites started depicting this. But now people all over the country are supporting him. This also broke backs of other political parties and more and more people now joining PTI. But Imran Khan says he will only go with people who play the fair game and are not corrupt at all.
Hope Year 2011 bring all the Happiness for People of Pakistan. May Allah bless our country.
Too much politics in Pakistan
Posted by K. Shahzad in Politics on December 9, 2011
Our so called leaders and the ones in opposition is these days seems to be indulged in too much politics. The ones in Power are doing less for people and are very much more indulge in blaming the past governments for all the shortcomings or in efficiency. On other side similarly the opposition parties as well are indulged in the blame game, they are asking all the wrong questions at the moment and just talking. Not making a good use of platforms they have.
i.e. If some one from opposition says they have proofs against the government indulging in corruption, instead of taking them to courts they are weeping in front of people of Pakistan. Similarly, if someone don’t like the moves of Government, instead of taking the things in front of parliament or debating the objectionable acts in parliament they again come in front of public and start over the blame game again. I won’t even blame PTI (Imran Khan’s Party) in this as they didn’t participated in last elections and have no representation in parliament, also other parties like this.
But the ones in some power, why they don’t take matters seriously and discuss them democratically in the parliament. Government in fact is not performing these days at all, not able to solve any of people’s issues, event the stature and sovereignty of states some times seems shaked.
But lets not get involved in blame game but start doing the right thing by using the viberent media as well as the free judiciary to bring the black sheeps on spot lite and get delt with them.
If we talk of media itself its doing great job on its own to reveal the true face to these p0liticians of today. Major channels even bring political talk shows every evening from 7pm to 11pm. They invite politician from in power, from the opposition, even those who are in no power at all as well as the annalists. The representatives of government and political parties are asked all the right questions, even they shouted on in these shows and told for God sake do few good things at least. They even are embarrassed more than once daily, but then again they keep focus on doing nothing for people of Pakistan but playing the blame game. Everyone who is asked about the work they have done starts blaming the ones who were in power 10 years ago.
The point is there is too much pointless politics here in Pakistan. Same is reason people of Pakistan also had to get themselves indulged in it to understand who is right. But people unlike past this time are much more aware. What they want is work on ground instead of politics, same is the reason everyone this time is thinking change and talking of revolution in country.
May Allah bless our country with people who do right things, ask right questions and are truly willing to revive our country in every aspect. Plus when you have time, do think how you can play some positive role in that new Pakistan, I am leaving this to you.
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Register your vote for Pakistan Elections 2013
Posted by K. Shahzad in Democracy on November 27, 2011
In Pakistan their is a rule that you have to register or at least confirm the existence of your name in voter lists before each elections. This time in order to make the voting process fair new registrations were taking place and lots of old names were removed.
Election Commission of Pakistan officially announced that preparation of voter lists are complete, also from now on now one will be knocking on your main gate to confirm if every one from your home is listed with election commission.
However, you can visit the election commission regional office of your region or call on certain phone numbers they have for each area to confirm if your name is there in voter list along with your National ID Card (NIC) Number.
Its right and responsibility of every individual to take part in elections and vote the person/party who he/she thinks can run things better in your area/country. If you will actually get out on election day and vote the correct person, it will bring the positive change and will be better for your own as well as country’s future.
What if you are not given permission to vote on elections day because your name is not voter lists. Do visit the elections commissions regional office of your city or area and make sure your name/your family’s names have been added to the list. If they are not there, do fill a form and submit it there. They have separate forms for individuals or you can ask them for form through which you will be able to register all of your family members, they are the forms which can have info of multiple people. Why not you just download it from here, fill in the form and submit it in the nearest election commission office.
The page linked above have those forms in image format but what you need to download is PDF, just below the images there is a link to PDF. Download that file, print it and submit it to nearest Elections Commission of Pakistan office. Don’t get confused by deadline dates, they have been extended twice, you still have time but need to hurry this time.
All of those who are aiming to bring the positive change by voting any existing or upcoming good politician, must take care of this critical step of getting vote registered. Also, this time when you got to vote think of it a power in your hands blessed by Allah, do use it for greater good of all Pakistanis not for any temporary incentive you are being offered. Do get good people on board for next five years.
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Eid Mubarak to Muslims in Pakistan and World Over – Happy Eid al-Adha 2011
Posted by K. Shahzad in Occasions on November 7, 2011
Eid al-Adha is one of those beautiful festival which Muslims around the world celebrate. Its Also called the ‘Greater Eid’ or ‘Eid of Sacrifice’ due to the very fact that Muslims slaughter the animals like Cows, Goats, Camels and few other on Eid day and divide the meat free between the deserving people.
This Eid celebration and sacrifice of animals is performed to remember the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son (Ismaial) as act of obedience of Allah (G0d), God though had swapped it with an animal before knife could do its act.
This Eid and sacrifice is beautiful in a way that Muslims first slaughter an animal and then give away the meet to people who normally can’t afford the meat. It doesn’t matter that deserving one is Muslim or not. It is about getting the less privileged involved in pleasures of life with the more privileged people.
People either sacrifice a full small animal like a goat or seven people collectively sacrifice a bigger animal like cow or camel etc. Then every one divides his/her meat to be sacrificed in three equal portions, one is for his/her own one, one is divided among close relatives and final one is divided between the deserving people. However, one can go forward to make the deserving people’s portion bigger to take most of the essence of this sacrifice.
After all this explanation of essence of Eid al-Adha i would like to say Happy Eid (Eid Mubarik) to Muslims in Pakistan and all over the world. Remember the deserving people around you, make an effort to divide the meat among those really deserving people and make sure very less portion of your meat goes into your freezers.
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More than 200,000 people already gathered around Minar-e-Pakistan to attend Imran Khan’s rally
Posted by K. Shahzad in Politics on October 30, 2011
Imran Khan had called a rally for 30th of October at Minar-e-Pakistan and now when that time came people more than expectations of anybody gathered around the Minar-e-Pakistan. 80% of people are the youth of the country, people who want to take country out of chaos.
People from all over Pakistan have welcomed the request of Imran khan and gathered in quantity which is uncountable at all but they are definitely more than 200,000. Even more people are joining the rally every moment. According to electronic media lots of people even not been able to reach and still to join the rally.
With this huge response the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) and people of Pakistan’s journey towards the change is already started. A revolution is ahead where everyone is hoping that irony will go away. While the current parties in government have been failed to run the country, they have done nothing for the betterment of people of Pakistan or resolving the problems like lack of education facilities, lack of health felicitates, Power load shedding, Gas load shedding, lack of justice and many many more. Moreover country have seen the biggest downturn of economy in current government period of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).
Now when the Imran Khan came in politics to bring revolution for people of Pakistan, people are welcoming him in a great manner.
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