Dear MR PM,
Karachi is now full of flies and mosquitoes and is becoming a dust bin, since Karachi-tes voted for PTI and now they are paying heavy price for their mistake by the hands of MQM and PPP. They are also under siege by diseases and filth since Aug 2018.
The city roads are not blocked by razor wires and barriers like Srinagar but there are broken roads and holes, you paid tribute to Kashmiri martyrs but you did not say a word for youth of the city who died due to electrocution in recent rains, thanks KE.
PTI has 15 MNAs from Karachi and only Ali Zaidi seems to be raising his voice. Karachi belongs to President of Pakistan and Governor of Sindh can openly critique about Indian atrocities in the region but are mum on Karachi’s plight.
Mr. PM. Pakistan’s economy is bleeding, the country is passing through the worst economic crisis. Implementing austerity measures across the board, tightening the tax net, and cutting down on non-essential imports are still not enough to drag out the nation from vicious debt cycle. Just like “Oil in sea” statement. The policies on economic front reminds me that hope can move emotions but not numbers.
Sir, Inflation is soaring and roaring while the poor of my country and even the middle class community is moaning in pain. In the past one year, I could not point towards a single subsidy which would make it possible for the poor families to deal with ever rising inflationary pressures. People angst and frustration has already risen to unprecedented levels. The slogan of hope has proved to be a cruel joke.
Mr. PM. In Pakistan, the most important aspect of well-being is also the most neglected. In its 72-year history, Pakistan’s successive governments — civil and military — have not made health a priority. PTI promised to give considerable attention but the situation like any other department remains woeful and discussions around health policy received little to no space in the agenda of government. And while the media tends to report heavily on specific health-related crises — such as the spread of polio and child deaths in Thar — meaningful debate around the causes of abysmal health services is virtually absent. But Sir, I am pleased that even if we are facing alarming situation in health care in Pakistan, We have 130 nukes to India’s measly 90.India Revokes Occupied Kashmir’s Special Status
Nearly 22.5 million children in Pakistan are out of school, the majority of them are girls. PTI’s government’s failure to educate children is having a devastating impact on millions of our upcoming youth. It seemed as if the government is tuned out and abdicated from its constitutional responsibility to provide free and compulsory education, but no Sir, let our youth rot in cycle workshops, on the footpaths begging for money, or let them indulge into criminal activities to make pennies for living, We shall stand with Kashmiris till the last drop of our blood.
Sports can safely be categorized in the modern times as an industry. Unfortunately in Pakistan, this industry is used as a bargaining tool by the people in command. Most of the sports bodies are run by politically powerful people with no passion and professional capabilities. It is a testament to the hunger and drive of the Pakistani nation that we have competed against more financially-supported sportsmen and have thrived too. MR. PM, you being a sportsman yourself could have given some serious attention to this industry, so that the country could find new heroes but no, you would prefer to become an ambassador of Kashmir, since they are in need of a superhero and who better could he be, if not you?
Sir, Bureaucracy in Pakistan may well have been an institution once but it was still only an institutional arm of the British to subjugate the colonized. There has been no holistic civil service reform since 1973. Reform does not merely entail raising salaries (sans performance evaluation) and/or rendering NAB toothless in case of civil servants. A closed system all-but-barring private sector professionals and accepting the “right” of staying on government payroll till the age of 60, regardless of performance, cannot deliver services efficiently to the citizens. Understandably, it has not done much except serving the interests of the elite. PTI has clearly chickened out from its early commitment to making bureaucrats accountable to tax payers. So the rough ride continues.
Mr. PM, amidst all the prevailing crisis in the motherland, you have called the nation to show solidarity with people of Kashmir by observing one hour protest against the Indian armed forces and Modi’s fascist regime. I strongly believe that sirens and playing national anthem will not solve Kashmir issue, these are all futile attempts to divert the nation from economic, debt and domestic crisis in the country. Solidarity is not made by force but at free will of people, this PTI’s “dharna” mentality has made us all a laughing stock in the world while our international diplomatic lobby has failed miserably on Kashmir issue.
