I had made myself a point that I wouldn't post/view in Time Pass section because some of y'all have such morally flawed takes & it's so frustrating to see because you are the best of the best & so many are great professionals, earning great, & living in amazing places but for one post Imma break that rule & say something.
No ordinary Pakistani has a stake in Pakistan. Whether they feel patriotic on 14th Aug or go to bed singing Dil Dil Pakistan, it's just a dream they haven't woken up from. The reality of Pak is that it's an entirely elite captured country & it is a self servicing elite that will never prioritize the ordinary people as their well-being & the well-being of an ordinary Pakistani are mutually exclusive. Sometimes I feel that the moral crisis that we suffer from has reached levels that are impossible to return from.
Every day we see violence & we just shrug our shoulders as if nothing has happened. A government official in the country where I reside now made a small mistake, despite being the PMs best friend, the entire country, his own party, stood up against him & made him resign. The PM here travels in a metro, the day they go out of their office, they move to their other parttime/fulltime day jobs. Some of the MPs don't make enough money so they have to leave their political career. This society isn't perfect, far from it but they've ensured that politics is for everyone, & no one feels excluded, no matter their gender, race, religion, etc.
My father was in the inner circles of Muslim league in our city, the party is corrupt to the core. PTI isn't any better, maybe they have a few idealistic people but the rest are just as big a jerks as nooney tunes are. You go to a police station & you feel you've entered enemy territory. No one can get anything done without paying bribes. There's currently a drive where buildings are being demolished because they are illegal, who let people build those things? What were the departments doing before? Now they just send heavy machinery demolishing property causing damages & in a few days all of this will be back. The infinite circle that we are stuck in will just remain.
Nawaz Sharif & his ilk has ruined the social fabric of our country. No leader of a country has that much property in another country. They are in power, they stay in the fanciest of places, they go out of power, they flock to the best available residences in the most expensive neighborhoods. All their businesses function only because they are in power, remove power from them & their businesses are threadbare. No one pays taxes, their sugar mills act as mafia, they have IPPs that get guaranteed money from the government, every contract that government requires somehow magically falls to them, no tenders, no transparency, & then a few months later the record room where all the record is kept magically burns.
They have no vision, absolutely uncultured, uneducated, & lack basic empathy. People rave about motorway, has anyone ever thought why was the motorway built? The route is longer than G.T. Road, it still runs below its potential, goods & heavy traffic still uses G.T road for transportation, it's a loss making venture to this day & we may be still paying debt accrued from this project. Why did they not build an ML1 train route if goods transport was the reason? Why did they not build underpasses & overhead bridges on the G.T Road as anyone who has traveled on it knows all the traffic choke points? We built an eco disaster in motorway as it runs through the heartland of our agricultural belt because Sharif sb. wanted to travel from Jati Umrah to Islamabad signal free & in doing such they also raised the value of property of so many of his elite subservient slaves & so many in this nation worship them for wasting their hard earned tax money.
The elite don't pay taxes, they don't do real jobs, their educations are fake, and they even don't like to get buried within Pak people. The Bhutto clan even charges money from people to see the graves of their dead, & sharifs & will soon follow this model of grave worshipping which Bhuttos have milked for 4 decades.
I'm no one to lecture anyone but start living with modern humane values. Prioritize empathy & question those in power other than mindless repetition of empty rhetoric. If Nawaz cared for Pak, he'd bring his assets in Pak from wherever they are in the world. The ordinary Pakistani person is dying in hospitals, not having access to clean water, breathing air that has AQI that's probably imported from hell, & having stunted growth because the food is all impure.
Ji metro banai, ji motorway bnai, ji khata hai tau lagata bhi hai, ji bari parwah hai mian sb ko Pakistan ki ji raat ko neend nai aati unko. Lmao