If
you cannot protect the Sindh Assembly, Mr Qaim Ali Shah, how will you protect
us?
By Shakir Lakhani Published: May 2, 2016
Mr Qaim Ali Shah, we have always known that your government (or
non-government) is terribly incompetent. This was recently proven when the host
of a private TV channel managed
to bring an
armed person into the assembly without being searched.
Of course you and your speaker made the right noises about the
sting operation being illegal and your government arrested the TV channel’s
host (Iqrar ul Hassan) and his associate. The fact is, you live in a
state of denial and
have brainwashed yourself into believing that Sindh is a model province that is
being governed very efficiently. We, however, are incredulous that you and your
ministers are not able to adequately protect even the hallowed chambers where
you and your minions decide how
to spend that
part of the budget money which has not been siphoned off to foreign countries.
You, of course, will say that security is already enough
considering most of our policemen are employed to protect you and your
ministers. As far as you are concerned, the rest of the province be damned. But
we, the people of Karachi, who provide 96 per cent of the budget
revenue, have a right to ask when you will do something to solve
our numerous problems.
We live under the constant threat of being looted because there
are very few cops on our streets. Our roads are filled
with potholes, our
traffic signals don’t work, and our traffic policemen believe they have been
appointed to extort
money from
innocent citizens. One of the reasons for all this inefficiency is that most
employees (including policemen) in your government have been hired only because
they are related to you and your ministers. This is why most of your government
employees do not show up for work most of the time, except to collect salaries.
Now that you have seen how easy
it is for anyone that is armed to enter a heavily protected building like the
Sindh Assembly, will you do something to improve the situation?
Will you continue believing
that everything is okay while our policemen risk their lives because they have
been given fake bullet-proof jackets?
Will you keep ignoring that our
armoured personnel carriers are fitted with useless and defective CCTV cameras?
Will we go on having ghost hospitals and ghost doctors, so that
the poor
people of Thar see
their children dying without medical attention?
How long will you continue
living in a state of denial?
Engineer, teacher, industrialist, associated with
petroleum/chemical industries for many years. Loves writing, and (in the
opinion of most of those who know him), mentally unbalanced. He tweets
@shakirlakhani (twitter.com/shakirlakhani)
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