Prime Minister of Pakistan: Some Suggestions For You

Suggestions For Prime Minister

The Frontier Post

21-06-2013

Since, the newly elected government has started functioning at federal and provincial level, it is necessary to bring revolutionary reforms to change the existing status quo system. Actually, Pakistan is replete with natural and human resources. But, what legs it behind is mismanagement and style of governance. Sixty years have been lapsed but style of governance has not been changed. It is still weird and slow in term of delivering service to the people. Hence, for the betterment of this country, I lay down some constructive measures before the honourable Prime Minister.
1. Depoliticization of police: When police is depoliticized Thana culture will be naturally ended. Apart from this, there should be a post of police ombudsman for addressing administrative issues pertaining to FIR lodging , postings & transfers etc.
2. Corruption has become natural tendency owing to force of the situation. Hence, there should be augmentation in salaries of the government officials. Besides, corruption prevention force can also be created with regard to controlling its rife. To wipe it out, NAB and Anti-Corruption departments should be re-organized.
3. There should be reforms in lower judiciary and Chief Justice should direct concerned officials to set vigilant watch over the performance of judges at district level.
4. Millions of educated Pakistanis run here and there with degrees. It is therefore, jobs should be immediately created in various public sector organizations for lessening down the unemployment ratio.
5. The style of governance can never be improved unless merit is not promoted. Honest officials should be deputed to head different state-owned enterprises and all provincial and federal commission chairmen should be honest and dedicated people.
6. Prime Minister of Pakistan should seek progress report from his close aids on daily basis.
7. Human security should be given the same degree of attention that is given to border security.
8. At grass root level, local commodities profiteers fix amount of their choice on groceries. Hence, District officers should be directed to check prices of various products by paying surprising visits at different shops and markets.
9. On political front, all the grievances of opposition parties should heard and they must be addressed timely and properly. It will bridge the political gap existing among various political parties.
10. For improving law and order situation, there should de-radicalization policy with some modern measures.
11. The primary duty of legislators is to make new laws in the interest of Pakistani people. Hence, conflicting clauses of constitution should be amended and new amendment should be brought.
12. The back of bone of our economy is overseas Pakistanis. However, revolutionary reforms should be brought in ministry of overseas Pakistanis for increasing the ratio of remittance.
13. In the light of Article 25-A of the constitution, new government should increase education budget.
14. E-governance should be applied in all state-owned public sector organizations.
15. All types of jobs should be given on the basis of merit provided that gender , caste, color and quota discrimination has not been adhered.
16. All the untapped natural resources particularly the environmental friendly should be explored with immediate effect. In the larger interest of Pakistani people, Sindh and Federal government should collectively work in utilizing the unexplored coal preserved beneath the sand of Thar.
17. For alleviating poverty there should be announcement of micro-finance schemes under minimum criteria.
18. Since, Pakistan is agricultural based economy and cotton exporter, there should be some reforms in agricultural sector. Presently, there is biggest issue of proper distribution of water.
19. India is supposed to have created one hundred dams and has acquired one year water preservation ability. However, there should be aggressive policy of establishing new dams at mouths of the rivers in Pakistan.
20. For permanent peace in Balochistan, all stake holders should be taken into confidence and genuine issues of Balochi people should be addressed with immediate effect.
21. Special package should be announced for educated Sindhi people roaming here and there for work.
22. Drone attacks must be stopped and a dialogue process should begin with people representing tribal areas of KPk.
Dear Prime Minster, it was the golden dream of Jinnah that Pakistan would emerge as a well organized and well governed country in the whole world. Presently, Pakistan is endowed with a number of problems and you are the only person who can bring revolutionary and evolutionary changes in our lives. To change Pakistan, it is necessary to change the system and for changing it , I have suggested above some measures with regard to creating a new Pakistan.

Waqar Abro
Karachi

Letter To The Editor: Cast your vote campaign

Cast your vote campaign
Pakistan Observer
23-04-2013

Casting a vote is as necessary as acquiring education or rendering other services for the betterment of the country. Since, there is hue and cry circulating in social and electronic media that many people may not cast their vote owing to different reasons, an alarming situation has been created throughout the country. However, Election Commission has invited Shahid Khan Afridi to play his part as Election Campaigner. He has been assigned the duty of mobilizing people for casting their precious vote in order to bring change in the country. No doubt, Shahid Khan Afridi always renders his yeoman’s services whenever the country or force of the situation demands. His recent Polio campaign is worth citing example in this regard. This country has given us many things but temptation of materialist and worldly desires always compel us to forget the basic duties of a citizen. We need to realize now what are our basic duties and what is the importance of a vote. A single vote can prevent a corrupt or dishonest contestant from entering into the parliament. I welcome the clarification given by Shahid Afridi that he would not help a certain political party. Rather, he will launch his campaign for bringing about a meaningful change in the existing voting system. This is the approach needed to be adopted by all and sundry. We must also take the upcoming elections as a historic or turning period and play our role in spreading the voting awareness individually.


Waqar Abro
-Karachi

Democracy and Pakistan

Democracy and Pakistan

By

WAQAR ABRO

Importance of democracy is far away from understanding in countries like Pakistan where most of the people do not know about their fundamental and voting rights.

Basically, democracy brings political independence but it is meaningless without economic and intellectual independence.

Since the creation of Pakistan, Pakistani people have been in search of real democracy that prevails in western countries. But due to dearth of education people have not fully understood the essence of democracy. Although, the current democratic setup is a positive omen or can be said as transitional democratic period yet it would take time to come in its actual form at mass level.

The political setup in Pakistan is not completely democratic in nature. Politicians are successors of their fathers and contest of elections in democratic way can never be named as democracy. In simple words, current political setup is post-mughal political system to some extent.

To begin with the Abraham Lincoln’s saying that “Democracy is government of the people by the people and for the people”.

Does it mean government by the feudal lords? Does it mean government by the bureaucrats? Or does it mean government by dictators? Simply, it means government by people that can be a labor, a peasant, a worker or any citizen. If we trace out the history of Pakistan, we would never find a single leader name that could be considered as peasant or laborer. 

Though Pakistan got independence through democratic channel yet it survived without real democracy in the country. Plutocracy, aristocracy, theocracy, dictatorship and ethnicity based leadership always prevailed in Pakistan in the name of democracy but astonishing point is that people never agitated or asked for original democracy. They always supported overtly or covertly all forms of governments and made themselves seekers of silence. Their silence could be due to lack of proper understanding to democracy or education yet they are partly responsible for the prevalent worse condition of the country.

The misuse of religion has also largely contributed for destabilizing the political setup. There is system of (peeri-Mureedi) Pious (spiritual guide)-disciple system on the basis of which most of the illiterate people cast their votes to said representative whether he who fulfills the pre-requisites for contesting elections or not.

 Apart from this, role of teachers, socialists, media men, civil society and educationalists is also worrisome. They never informed people how to vote, why to vote and whom to vote. Every Pakistani wants his child to be an engineer, civil servant, doctor, teacher, pilot, army men, or sports man but he does not want to encourage his child to be a politician because contesting election against a feudal lord is not as easy as one paints it.

Actually feudal lords never allowed Pakistani people to grow their intellectual independence due to threat to existing political setup. However, they have built countless industries outside of Pakistan and provided very limited facilities to peasants in their constituencies. No doubt, industrial development does not only bring intellectual independence for peasants but also provide them an opportunity to sell their skills rather than everything through peasantry. Besides, dependence of peasants due to cropping on feudal lords will also be nosedived if peasants are provided opportunities in industries.  In nutshell, feudal lords used to threaten peasants if they cast their votes against their will then their production of land will be seized. It is therefore thana(Police station) culture develops in remote areas where chosen officers are posted after giving assent to feudal lords.

It goes without saying that most of the politicians in Pakistan movement were also feudal in nature and democrats in practice but their sincerity with the country can only be gauged by peeping into the history of Pakistan. They were the main heroes who hugely contributed for the separate Muslim state for which they not only lost their near and dear ones but also lost their wealth.

Contradiction to this, current feudal lords want to maintain their hegemony on people along with heading all institutions.

However, they love to be parliamentarians who have a wide scope and area of exercising power at national and provincial level.

“Lord Action” has rightly said that power tends to corrupt but absolute power corrupts absolutely. Plutocrats, aristocrats, theocrats, dictators and ethnicity based leaders have enjoyed the taste of absolute power therefore they never brought reforms in education sector and always allocated low budget for it from national exchequer. They know that education develops a sense of judgment of right and wrong and an educated society would never allow such type of rulers to rule the masses.

But, present scenario strikes a note of hope. People have started understanding the structure of government and started acquiring more and more education which is no doubt changing the state of mind of Pakistani people to larger extent regarding the prevailing political setup.

Owing to this, feudal lords have prepared a couple of new plans in order to secure their power. They have created a number of challenges for youth and for masses so that people may not indulge themselves in understanding the political system of Pakistan. Awami league and Pakistan Tehreek I Insaf have largely suppressed these sorts of tiny but lasting far reaching consequences threats and implied to people that the existing parliament is completely bogus because 45% bogus votes had been cast in the election.

There is also another technique which is often observed, is to get back confidence of the masses by announcing some relief packages like Watan cards, free laptops, free rickshaws etc.

Apart from this, slogans are also uttered according to psyche of the people (Pakistan Khappy, Roti kapra Makan, Qarz Utaro Mulk sawaro)etc.

The height of folly can be observed from the fact that whatever relief packages are offered to people, they are solely from national exchequer not from personal pockets of the rulers. And people are jubilant enough that their rulers vividly and tirelessly work for their betterment and relief in Pakistan.  Sir Syed must be crying that did I dreamed of this Pakistan? Quaid I Azam must also be moaning that I struggled for this Pakistan? And Allama Iqbal must be requesting Allah to ask his people to thoroughly understand what he wrote in his philosophies.

To lead the topic towards remedies, Pakistanis need to work day and night if they want to change the system. They should collectively put their efforts in order to fight against few families. They must teach every citizen of the country whether educated or not the importance of vote.

Hence, it can be concluded as; though we are having post mughal political setup yet hopes are high that one day Pakistan would be a complete democratic country in which leaders would be emerging from grass root level and there would be no room for dynastical political system.

“Yahi mera sapna hay k Pakistan jag uthy aur ese political system ko khatam kary jo swiss accounts men gareebo ka luta howa pesa jama kar k mulk ko tabah karta, lekin manzil bohat door hay aur ye hay sirf mera pehla Kadam”.