I am among a few PTI voters who do not support this Azadi March wholeheartedly as I do not want instability or chaos in the country. I like my normal routine of 9 to 5 in the office and then go home, eat, pray and then sleep peacefully. I go to PTI protests only when I feel the crowd is good and weather is pleasant. Most of the time my support and protest is confined to the digital space. I am okay with paying 34.5% tax on mobile cards. I can bear loadshedding as I know this is temporary and will last for only ummmm 10 or 20 years max ? I am also fine with the government running massive ad campaigns with public's tax money. I am indifferent to with disclosure of government's corruption cases and extortion of public money.
But today overhearing a conversation between three people in my office van dawned upon me, why have we always being ruled a corrupt leader. So the conversation went on like this:
Girl 1: What IK is doing causing harm to our economy? He must give in and accept Nawaz as a PM. What if he is doing corruption? All of the politicians do…
Girl 2: Exactly… Even Benazir did. and Zardari .... He was king of corruption !
Girl 1: Yes. Atleast our current PM is better than him. He might be plundering money, but isn't he spending on country too.
Where I was already dozing off, this conversation made me sleepier but then my ‘van driver’ interrupted the conversation and what he said caused me to wake up from my sleep (Literally)!
So this is what he asked the girl?
Driver: Beta to is ka matlab hai aap bakhushi tyaar hain Nawaz Sharif ki ghulaami k liye. (So it means you are ready to yield to the antics of corrupt leaders)
Girl 1: (after a thought) Ummmm aur koi hal bhi to nahin. ( we don't have any choice)
Driver: Bus beta phir aap tyaar hojayen Hamza Shabaz Shareef phir Maryam Nawaz ki ghulami kay liye.(My dear, then get ready to be ruled by corrupt leaders one after the other). Then he continued: if I had fought this battle years ago, today I could have made a better future for my children. My fault is I accepted this status quo like you are accepting today and now my children are paying for that. This is not a fight of IK and Nawaz. This is the fight of 2 social classes in Pakistan. The ones who have gotten everything here. They don’t want to change the system and not ready to pay the taxes either. The other consists of people like me who work from 9 am till 12 am and still can’t feed their kids properly. Youth like you should support this fight or else get ready for the unending slavery . IK’s only fault is that he lacks the power of speech. He is fighting for our rights but he is not able to gather a large mass of population because he doesn't know how to play politics and use sugar-coated words to entice the people.
At that time i realized that we have gotten so accustomed to corruption that we embrace our blatant corrupt leaders with wide-arms open. And because we agree that ‘Corrupt to sab hi hote hain’ ( everyone is corrupt). we allow them to do it. We don’t want to come out of our cocoons and break this trend of political dynasty.
From a match-box to a new car, we are paying heavy taxes on everything and what do we get in return?.
I don’t think this long march will bear any good result as the majority of the population happily allow politicians to suck their blood. IK’s surely does not have a magic wand. Even if he comes to the power, things will not change unless we change ourselves. The problem is not with the Nawaz, Zardari or any other leader. The problem lies with us. With our blindfolded eyes, numb mind and indifferent attitude this system cannot be changed. Hence we need a ‘Nai Soch’ not a ‘Naya Pakistan'.
And since I am also too insolent to raise voice against this corruption, i deserve to be victimized at the hands of corrupt leaders.
Girl 1: What IK is doing causing harm to our economy? He must give in and accept Nawaz as a PM. What if he is doing corruption? All of the politicians do…
Girl 2: Exactly… Even Benazir did. and Zardari .... He was king of corruption !
Girl 1: Yes. Atleast our current PM is better than him. He might be plundering money, but isn't he spending on country too.
Where I was already dozing off, this conversation made me sleepier but then my ‘van driver’ interrupted the conversation and what he said caused me to wake up from my sleep (Literally)!
So this is what he asked the girl?
Driver: Beta to is ka matlab hai aap bakhushi tyaar hain Nawaz Sharif ki ghulaami k liye. (So it means you are ready to yield to the antics of corrupt leaders)
Girl 1: (after a thought) Ummmm aur koi hal bhi to nahin. ( we don't have any choice)
Driver: Bus beta phir aap tyaar hojayen Hamza Shabaz Shareef phir Maryam Nawaz ki ghulami kay liye.(My dear, then get ready to be ruled by corrupt leaders one after the other). Then he continued: if I had fought this battle years ago, today I could have made a better future for my children. My fault is I accepted this status quo like you are accepting today and now my children are paying for that. This is not a fight of IK and Nawaz. This is the fight of 2 social classes in Pakistan. The ones who have gotten everything here. They don’t want to change the system and not ready to pay the taxes either. The other consists of people like me who work from 9 am till 12 am and still can’t feed their kids properly. Youth like you should support this fight or else get ready for the unending slavery . IK’s only fault is that he lacks the power of speech. He is fighting for our rights but he is not able to gather a large mass of population because he doesn't know how to play politics and use sugar-coated words to entice the people.
At that time i realized that we have gotten so accustomed to corruption that we embrace our blatant corrupt leaders with wide-arms open. And because we agree that ‘Corrupt to sab hi hote hain’ ( everyone is corrupt). we allow them to do it. We don’t want to come out of our cocoons and break this trend of political dynasty.
From a match-box to a new car, we are paying heavy taxes on everything and what do we get in return?.
I don’t think this long march will bear any good result as the majority of the population happily allow politicians to suck their blood. IK’s surely does not have a magic wand. Even if he comes to the power, things will not change unless we change ourselves. The problem is not with the Nawaz, Zardari or any other leader. The problem lies with us. With our blindfolded eyes, numb mind and indifferent attitude this system cannot be changed. Hence we need a ‘Nai Soch’ not a ‘Naya Pakistan'.
And since I am also too insolent to raise voice against this corruption, i deserve to be victimized at the hands of corrupt leaders.
