Friday, April 17, 2009

Article Reviews by Raheel Awan

Blind Who, The State or Citizen?
Posted July 25, 2008 by Harris Khalique (Poet and Rights campaigner based on Islamabad).

This is an extraordinary article that shows that there are sensible people who philosophize that this country and world is declining in morals and humanity. I strongly agree and recommend this article for anyone and everyone as it points out the weakness of the government of Pakistan, no matter who the president or prime minister is.
It is an example of the increasing trend in the gap between rich and poor; while the top or elite watch and go about their business like nothing is happening. Money is the language of the rich while poverty is the language of the poor. The state AND the citizen is blinded by “power of the dollar.” As the state gives no heed to the common citizen and start to neglect the fact that energy needs are not being met, people are dying of diseases that are easily curable, water that should be safe for drinking is being polluted by the industrialists; instead they have to pay for “pure” water.

The backbone of our country, the rural individual, and their high dependence on sanitation, solid wastes, fertilizers and pesticides are not being properly accorded with health standards. The trade-off between health and cleanliness is well, being traded off with profit!!
The ordinary citizen is blinded in the way that he/she is not speaking out! France is a developed country that has protests once at least every 2 weeks for the betterment of the people and we can’t have the galls to focus on a province?
The ordinary citizen in this country is realizing that there is a problem with their government and talk about it with their “groups” but is not demonstrating on a large scale against the “corruption, anti-people, and selfish” attitude by the government towards us.” There are no riots or protests because people are too busy working hard day and night making a living for themselves and to provide for their families. Moreover, they are worried that if they don’t go to work tomorrow where would they go to earn money. All this because of a majority of the people are illiterate/uneducated, demoralized, de-motivated, and have nowhere else to go to.

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