Our beloved country Pakistan reels
under a civic system that is out of sync with the imperatives of a modern
society. It is decrepit and utterly inadequate to provide decent, modest and
worthwhile living environment to the people of Pakistan. The roads and highways
network is not enough to cater for fast growing movement of both travelers and
freight. Travelling between the cities and within the cities in Pakistan is
hazardous, slow, and unsafe.
 
 Unlike western societies, Pakistan at first
glance looks primitive, dirty and disorganized. From traffic to business
activities nothing seems to be without sleaze and impropriety. Despite our
society being deeply religious and people with total religious orientation,
ethical practices in social dealings and human interaction are woefully
deficient. There is always a wide gap between what the leaders profess and what
they do.
 
Our social sector figureslowest in our national priorities.
The health, education, transportation and other public related services are moribund and woefully inadequatedue to a variety of factors
including paucity of funds,
erroneous and faulty policiesand planning and lack of vision to make them universal, accessible,
organized and modern. The population is growing at an alarming pace. We have ramshackle old frames and structures of buses shorn ofnecessary facilities like air conditioning, heating etc.
Overloading of passengers is common scene on Pakistani roads.
 
Social vices like bribery,
corruption, pilferage of government resources, adulteration and selling of
sub-standard commodities and medicines, evasion of taxes and a host of other odious
crimes have always been rampant. Despite being deeply religious people lack
moral fiber.
 
There are no standardized procedures
for conduct and regulation of civic life. Even if there are such procedures, no
one bothers to follow them in order to check the mal-practices and violations
in daily life such as encroachments, violation of building rules, sanitation
rules, and maintenance of premises and public places.
 
Likewise traffic rules are
complicated, cumbersome, outdated and ignored by both public and the concerned
departments. Traffic in Pakistan has ever been messy. The civic code is
outdated. The cities are brimming with filth, stench, encroachments, horse and
bullock driven carts. There are no strict codes for raising new dwellings.
 
There is a mushroom, unabated and
unplanned growth of houses and shantytowns in and around all the major cities
in Pakistan, choking and stultifying the already meager and insufficient
utilities. The water is rationed by hours, the electric power goes off
frequently, and the voltage is low and unstable. There is no well-planned or
scientific method of removing garbage from the lanes, roads, houses and public
places in Pakistan.
 
Our railways is ramshackle,
mismanaged, is a relic of the past and starkly lacking in the modern system of management  as we find in the railways of the
developed societies. The railway stations have deplorable and endemic problems
such as sanitation, non-provision of computerized communication, operation
system and utilities like air conditioning, heating and reservation etc. There
are countless flaws in our railway system. Our railway is in dire need of
complete overhauling so as to make it modern and efficient.
 
 Same is the case with other service providing
organizations such as WAPDA, PIA, customs,
municipal and local bodies police, courts and judicial system, postal, revenue
and taxation departments: to name a few. All these organizations and departments are chronically
infested with corruption, mismanagement, inefficiency and other flaws.
 
The Judiciary, Police, bureaucracy
and all other nation building institutions that should serve the people in the
fairest and the freest manner have remained subservient to the interests of the
powerful local lords, wealthy
sections, aristocracy, robber barons, elitists classes, bureaucracy, andthe political mandarins.
 
The unavailability of uniform, inexpensive
and prompt justice, adulteration, timely decision making, stealing of mail,
counterfeit stamp papers, usurping public land and property are part of our
morbid system that needs to a drastic surgery and purged of its deformities, disabilities
and disorders. Expired and spurious drugs are sold unhindered without any
qualms of conscience or fear of law. Hospitals lack the milk of human kindness
and lack proper facilities for the ever-increasing patients. We sell
adulterated food without any moral prick and without any fear of legal or
social reprisals. 
 
In order to bypass the complicated,
cumbersome, and unclear rules for issuance of essential and ordinary documents
such as driving licenses, passports, identity cards the people are forced offer
to graft and bribes to the officials or the touts.  In short there is a complete moral,
institutional and organizational mess and mayhem in the society.
 
Pakistan is to be liberated from the
clutches of feudal classes and privileged families, rapacious mafia, pressure
lobbies and special interest groups that have held the state and the society
hostage since the inception of Pakistan. These unassailable rogue entities and
powerful individuals do not allow Pakistan to function as a liberal, free,
democratic, modern, progressive and prosperous country.
 
They hate the very concept of a civil
society in Pakistan. Civil society means freedom of expression and unhindered observance
of faith, and un-curtailed movement and pursuit of happiness in conformity with
the human and fundamental rights. These groups and entities are enemies of
progress and therefore of the people of Pakistan.
 
Pakistan is still far away from
having a democratic order that is unvarnished and truly based on the popular
vote and people's aspirations. For most part of its existence Pakistan was
under the army rule, bureaucratic dispensation or quasi-democratic system.
Elections in Pakistan were seldom free and fair. The National Assembly and
Senate assailed by the powerful classes would not function in an independent
manner and only serve the privileged sections. There is no accountability at
any stage in bureaucracy and officialdom. Accountability in Pakistan is used
for vendetta against the political contenders.
.
The leadership that was in power all
along has, thus far, miserably failed to address and resolve the myriad socio
-civic, economic, political and even day to day problems of the people. The
hapless people of Pakistan have been waiting for so long for a better time to
come but it is now foregone that the leadership in Pakistan is birds of the
same flock.
 
The leaders lack vision, sincerity, seriousness
and the will to transform Pakistan into a modern, liberal and prosperous state.
With the abundance of natural resources, vast productive land and industrious
manpower that Pakistan is endowed with, our country has the capability and
potential to stand shoulder to shoulder in the comity of developed nations in a
few years' span.
 
What therefore, needed is to hand
over power to such people who are down-to-earth, who possess the vision, unshakable
will, absolute honesty and sincerity to bring about an encompassingrevolution for a glorious Pakistan as well as for a vibrant and
prosperous
 civil society. Since the political leadership
in Pakistan has failed to provide a stable democratic political system, there
has been a pervasive socio-civic and economic chaos that the country is
perennially suffering from.
 
With a crowd of political parties
already in the country it would look superfluous to form another political
entity for themuch needed watershed revolution in Pakistan and to change it
structurally from a primitive, backward, poor, mismanaged to an institutionalized,
orderly and dignified modern nation. Yet without a dedicated and visionary
leadership the hope for a better, prosperous and stable Pakistan would always
remain dim. It means that for making Pakistan a great country, it is
indispensable to change the leadership first.
 
After more than half a century's
governance, it is obvious that the privileged and elitist classes that believe
in running the country via plutocracy, oligarchy or aristocracy, are neither capable nor sincere in good governance. The
reason for their inability to earnestly serve the nation and country is that
they are not mindful of the common man's problems nor are they interested in
ameliorating the plight of the citizens whose predominant majority is suffering
from bad governance.
 
It is now incumbent that the power
should be exercised by the dispossessed sections of the society. The common
people understand their problems well because they are affected by them. But
while the political power should now pass on to the underprivileged or
unprivileged, there must be a team of such experts and men of excellence and
vision who should formulate policies and planning that can put the country on
the road to progress and prosperity and inject order, discipline and social
peace into our ailing society and mode of governance.
 
In the light of the above assessment
one would wonder and it would rather be pleasantly awesome if MQM and Imran Khan's
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) can join hands to save Pakistan and steer this
nation out of the dire straits of ignorance, poverty, lawlessness, decadence, social
and moral vices, plunder of the privileges sections, endemic corruption, gas and power load shedding. They should
restructure failed and dysfunctional institutions departments and industries,
renovate Pakistan with a modern infrastructure and infuse life into its ailing
economy and stir a fresh hope about a glorious future and a great destiny.
 
I mention MQM and PTI because notwithstanding
their shortcomings and, they possess the grit and resolution to straighten the
awry situation in Pakistan. Their leaders are eminently honest with committed
cadres to get the things done. The exemplary unity and strict discipline in the
ranks of MQM with a mission to root out feudalism, nepotism, perfidious privileged
mafias and similar abominations is a boon and the indispensible tools to harness
Pakistan and reorder it rudder.
 
PTI is a new entrant into the political
arena of Pakistan. Their slogans and manifestoes too are revolutionaries and
their chief and his associates are reputed for their patriotism and clean hands.
They possess the pain and a desire to revolutionize Pakistan with radical transformation
of its rotten system from a Patwari to the running of the state of Pakistan.
They should get a chance to stem the burgeoning rot in Pakistan.
The writer is a senior journalist and a
former diplomat

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The U.S. paid $50,000 in compensation for each
villager killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in a shooting rampage
allegedly carried out by a rogue American soldier in southern Afghanistan,
Afghan officials said Sunday.

The families were told that the money came from President Barack Obama. The
unusually large payouts were the latest move by the White House to mend
relations with the Afghan people after the killings threatened to shatter
already tense relations.

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is accused of sneaking off his base on March
11, then creeping into houses in two nearby villages and opening fire on
families as they slept.

The killings came as tensions between the U.S. and Afghanistan were
strained following the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base in February. That
act – which U.S. officials have acknowledged was a mistake – sparked riots
and attacks that killed more than 30 people, including six American
soldiers.

There have been no violent protests following the March 11 shootings in
Kandahar province's Panjwai district, but demands for justice on Afghan
terms have been getting louder since Bales was flown out of the country to
a U.S. military prison. Many Afghans in Kandahar have continued to argue
that there must have been multiple gunmen and accused the U.S. government
of using Bales as a scapegoat.

U.S. investigators believe the gunman returned to his base after the first
attack and later slipped away to kill again.

That would seem to support the U.S. government's assertion that the shooter
acted alone, since the killings would have been perpetrated over a longer
period of time than assumed when Bales was detained outside his base in
Kandahar province's Panjwai district.

But it also raises new questions about how the suspect could have carried
out the pre-dawn attacks without drawing attention from any Americans on
the base.

Bales has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and other
crimes and could face the death penalty if convicted.

The families of the dead received the money Saturday at the governor's
office, said Kandahar provincial council member Agha Lalai. He and
community elder Jan Agha confirmed the payout amounts.

Survivors previously had received smaller compensation payments from Afghan
officials – $2,000 for each death and $1,000 for each person wounded.

Two U.S. officials confirmed that compensation had been paid but declined
to discuss exact amounts, saying only that the payments reflected the
devastating nature of the incident. The officials spoke anonymously because
of the sensitivity of the subject.

A spokesman for NATO and U.S. forces, Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, said only
that coalition members often make compensation payments, but they are
usually kept private.

"As the settlement of claims is in most cases a sensitive topic for those
who have suffered loss, it is usually a matter of agreement that the terms
of the settlement remain confidential," Cummings said.

However, civilian death compensations are occasionally made public. In
2010, U.S. troops in Helmand province said they paid $1,500 to $2,000 if a
civilian was killed in a military operation and $600 to $1,500 for a
serious injury. The Panjwai shootings are different because they were not
part of a sanctioned operation, but it is a distinction lost on many
Afghans who see any civilian deaths as criminal.

The provided compensation figures would mean that at least $866,000 was
paid out in all. Afghan officials and villagers have counted 16 dead – 12
in the village of Balandi and four in neighboring Alkozai – and six
wounded. The U.S. military has charged Bales with 17 murders without
explaining the discrepancy.

The 38-year-old soldier, who is from Lake Tapps, Wash., is accused of using
his 9mm pistol and M-4 rifle to kill four men, four women, two boys and
seven girls, then burning some of the bodies. The ages of the children were
not disclosed in the charge sheet.

Bales is being held in a military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The
mandatory minimum sentence if he is convicted is life imprisonment with the
chance of parole. He could also receive the death penalty.

Families of the dead declined to comment on any payments by U.S. officials
on Sunday, but some said previously that they were more concerned about
seeing the perpetrator punished than money.

Kandahar is the birthplace of the Taliban and remains a dangerous area
despite several offensives.

In the latest violence, a bomb struck a joint NATO-Afghan foot patrol in
Kandahar's Arghandab district late Saturday, killing nine Afghans and one
international service member, according to Shah Mohammad, the district
administrator.

Arghandab is a farming region just outside Kandahar city that has long
provided refuge for Taliban insurgents. It was one of a number of
communities around Kandahar city that were targeted in a 2010 sweep to oust
the insurgency from the area.

The Afghan dead included one soldier, three police officers, four members
of the Afghan "local police" – a government-sponsored militia force – and
one translator, Mohammad said.

NATO reported earlier Sunday that one of its service members was killed
Saturday in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan but did not provide
additional details. It was not clear if this referred to the same incident,
as NATO usually waits for individual coalition nations to confirm the
details of deaths of their troops.

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Associated Press Writer Robert Burns contributed to this report from
Washington

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Pakistan: Well done Mr President
Don't say a word to Asif Ali Zardari the President of Pakistan especially selectively critical media persons who criticise President, army, ISI, religious parties but are rightly scared of Karachi based foreign funded and run mafias. Those who are criticising President day and night for financial and political corruption, bad governance, law and order should stop immediately. He is not alone and cannot do all this corruption on his own? He has a long line of 'assets' working for him both openly and secretly apart from those foreign dignitaries who comes to assist his regime. Surely his team has learnt the trick of getting things done and by 'bypassing the system of government and state'.

While having dinner in 2006 late Benazir Bhutto asked me in London's Kundan Restaurant; "shall we make 'Nelson Mandela' (Asif Zardari) prime minister of Pakistan"? I replied to her quietly; "well you are the leader of the party and surely you can make a decision". Later she called Wajid Shamsulhasan and told him: "keep in contact with me (Shahid Qureshi) ". (Wajid Shamas Hassan is current high commissioner of Pakistan in UK).

Billion dollar question is how Asif Zaradri manage to survive all that time and beaten all the conspiracies against him? 'He did it with outside help'. It is like someone who never studied but passed all the exams. In short all the 'foreign assets' across the board in Pakistan followed the instructions in supporting his (Zardari) regime.

A senior journalist said to me: "why do you think famous lawyers Asma Jhangir and Itizaz Ahsan both jumped in support of the regime which is the most corrupt and treacherous? Surely someone must have asked them to do so. Otherwise who would dirty their hands and reputation with this filth?" That is true in all spheres of Pakistani elite.

"Did Pakistan People's Party conducted an internal poll and after finding out that you (Atizaz Ahsan) is the most popular leader who could replace Benazir Bhutto in the party, and after finding the out the results you were deliberately ignored by the leadership (and replaced by Jhangir Badar)", His (Atizaz Ahsan) response was; 'That is true'. I asked Atizaz Ahsan famous Pakistani lawyer in Pakistan High Commission London few years ago. Historically PPP never allowed any powerful leadership to grow from Punjab but on the other hand people in Punjab always supported Zulifqar Bhutto and the rest.

In April 2008 (after PPPP formed government in Pakistan) while travelling as a British media delegate to Pakistan I met Atizaz Ahsan again at Lahore airport. We travelled to Islamabad on the same flight. I reconfirmed with him what he told me few years ago in London. Atizaz Ahsan ran a successful campaign but his own party (PPP) let him and Pakistan down by not restoring the illegally deposed Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry chief justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan as promised. While collecting our luggage at Islamabad air port I told him (Atizaz Ahsan) that, "reformers and feudal cannot work together". Surely as a lawyer Mr Ahsan is allowed to choose his client but representing Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and his government which is not only most corrupt as well as involved in ignoring the orders of the Supreme Court, installing, hiring, and appointing, convicted criminals on sensitive and high positions. A senior analyst said, 'Atazaz was a pseudo intellectual like many others who took his fair share in the fruits of government by seemingly taking legitimate contracts of LPG.

It is not a mere coincident that current Pakistani regime of Asif Zardari has stolen $94 billion in four years without any support both outside and inside of Pakistan. His regime is fully supported in money laundering i.e. illegal transfer of state money outside Pakistan and deposit in foreign banks and investment in properties and businesses all over the world.

"Pakistan has lost an unbelievably high amount, more than Rs8,500 billion (Rs8.5 trillion or US$94 billion), in corruption, tax evasion and bad governance during the last four years of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's tenure, Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) claims. The TIP advisor, Adil Gillani, told The News that the real impact of corruption in the country's economy is far more than what is generally estimated or what is formally uncovered. He believes that Pakistan does not need even a single penny from the outside world if it effectively checks the menace of corruption and ensures good governance. Adil Gillani, the TIP representative, who too has been haunted by the government during these years for producing corruption reports, explained that the TIP pointed out corruption of Rs390 billion in 2008, Rs450 billion in 2009, Rs825 billion in 2010 and Rs1,100 billion in 2011 under the present regime. The total of these identified cases of corruption is Rs2,765 billion; reported Ansar Abbasi of The News.

One must salute the producer and writer of Indian movie 'Knockout' released not long ago. The theme of the movie is political, financial corruption and how to get money back from the Swiss Banks into the (India) country. Pakistan should write to Swiss Government asking for information about money deposited in its banks by Pakistani nationals. Indian politicians surely are more politically mature than Pakistanis but both are corrupt as each other the only difference is that Indians ask for their 'cuts' in agreements after but Pakistanis asked for their 'cuts' before the agreement and leave the companies decide the prices' said a senior bureaucrat.

"Pakistan cannot be left on its own devices", said a diplomat in a TV program in London. It is that patronage of the corrupt politicians and actors by foreign governments which made Asif Zardari survive all that time?

Well done Mr President.


(Dr Shahid Qureshi is writer on foreign policy based in London)


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