Gas load shedding coupled with police torture: O poor Pakistanis…..

After getting into crises, there are two options; either you raise voice for salvation or keep suffering silently—-most of the Pakistanis do the former.  In some cases, a group of conscious people comes on roads, calls a strike and hold demos to urge the
administrators to solve its problems. But, the dictatorial rulers, I am forced to say so as there has never been any democracy in the state, use force to silent the protesters and maintain ‘law and order’—-however they themselves violate it by doing so.

Dogged by CNG and Sui Gas load shedding coupled with an unbearable surge in their prices, a number of transporters from different cities of the country gathered outside the federal capital today morning to make the biggest ‘protagonists’ of democracy, President
Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, realise the intensity of their sufferings.

What happened then? The Islamabad masters ordered the city police to ransack the protesters. Acting as diligent ‘public servants’, the policemen perpetrated sheer torture and violence on the poor victims of gas ‘crises’—–there are no crises actually,
all is an engineered drama to justify the price hike.

The TV footages showed the security men beating and manhandling the demonstrators like savages irrespective of all human ethics and moral values. Some were arrested too. Is this character of an Islamic democratic nation? Not at all.

Democracy is the most misused concept in Pakistan. Since the very inception of the country, our civilian rulers have been using it as a shield to protect their heinous interests. The same is happening now. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), which has totally
deviated from the agenda of its founder, is running the worst every government. Every day, you experience inflation, shortages and crises. Despite substantial decrease in international fuel prices, we are getting hikes.

What to do in this situation? There is no other way except peaceful demonstrations. The whole nation must rise up against this oppressive system in a civilised and peaceful way, not violently. Unless we all do it jointly, we can never find a way out of problems.
It is not a rebellion at all, it is just struggle for survival. It is a fight for making the country a prosperous homeland to live in.  “Bol kay lab azad hien teray” (Speak out, your lips are free)—Faiz Ahmed Faiz said.

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Posted by Sharjeel Ahmad on Jan 3 2012. Filed under Opinion, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry