Never late, yet so close,
Pakistan is in the process of transaction. It has almost overseeing the darks a
happy moments of a new change. I must say that this peaceful change is the
result of two great changes in Pakistan, the independence of Judiciary and
change in the behavior of Punjab Politics. The main actor of Punjab Politic,
Nawaz Sharif learnt well from the eight precious years of his life spent in the
exile. One may agree if I say that incident was a repetition of the major
mistakes like killing of Liqat Ali Khan and Z. A Bhoto. Before the election in
2008 three major mistakes that Pakistan faced were, the exile of Sharif
Brothers, the Assassination of Banazeer Bhoto and the By coat J I, PTI and
Nationalists.
In the result such forces like MQM always blackmailed the feeble PPP Government
that concentrated more on survival then solution of primary problems and at the
other end continuous conflict with institutions made the ground even harder for
smooth playing. Some of the studies claim it a great game of Zardari who
indulged masses and media in useless cases just to put five years killing the
time. He made such a situation in which he allowed none played well but only he
and his friends.
Due to continuous conflicts,
the main issues were badly neglected and got even worse than ever before.
Institutions got weekend, economy went below the line, currency devalued and law
and order turned zero. Government lost the rite in the major areas of the
country.
To see the overall situation, a possible transaction is closed rather away few
days and the new government will face many challenges.
Law and order is the main problem of Pakistan which got worse in the past few
years and affected all walks of life and has given a tough time to economy
particularly in mini Pakistan, Karachi. Suicide Bombing, Car Blasting and small
crackers killing the people reminds Iraq. The operations held in different areas
of KPK resulted in otherwise than positive results. Karachi remains close for
three days in a weak and puts huge lose to economy. PPP Government never took it
serious as Dr. Rehman Malik would blame TTP at one hand at most strange he
proclaimed that “Girl Friends” are involved in Target Killings. In the result
foreign investors stopped their investments and many local ones managed to shift
either UAE, Singapore or Malaysia even Bangladesh. The BHATA PARCH “chit” made
the small traders pays on daily bases where in case of refusal many lost their
lives or got children kidnapped. We slowly turned into a dangerous nation. Not
to speak of investors’ even sports teams quit coming to Pakistan.
Skilled Pakistani left and a matter of brain drain affected every part and
department and even those who were either granted scholarships by government or
sent for various training denied returning. The new government will have a
serious challenge in order to bring peace which is necessary for progress.
Power shortage badly affected the economy and the daily life. At present
Pakistan is facing the shortage of 5000 M W just to meet the daily matters. No
doubt, Punjab is the biggest province and an industrial Zone of our country.
This situation eventually affected the entire system in the region and had many
laborers came on roads. The Rental Power projects were launched and did nothing
to decrease load shedding but the price per unit got many time double than the
earliest. If the coming days remained with the same situation our crippling
economy even go dead.
Education in the previous years was badly neglected and was not considered a
problem. The amount allocated for higher education was uselessly spent in BISP
and most of the Higher Education Institutes are at the edge of closer. HEC got
more than 50% cut in budget that directly affected the Universities across the
country and specially the scholars who were studying abroad in HEC scholarships.
The schools and colleges were got closed and increase in the number stopped
rather decreased. Number of the School going children dropped and most of the
schools got closed. However Khyber Pashtoonkawa, and Punjab governments took
better steps as KPK government opened many new Universities and sub-campuses in
various areas. Though TALIBAN played did much to destroy at the other end.
Punjab government along other matters, made good steps for improvement of
education starting Danish Schools, Laptop Schemes, Solar Lamps to students and
Teachers Training Programmes. They also allocated good share of budget for
education development programme. Sind and Balochistan took never care for this
topic and education went at lowest in these two provinces. However they made
good efforts to appoint their kith and kin’s at charming positions and making
voters teachers. In Balochistan, Governor Balochistan made a request to all 58
ministers to allocate some amount for education from their funds but none among
them could do so.
If the coming government does not work on war footings for the current problems,
it would be harder to survive in the presence of strong opposition and media.