Pakistan is a safe place

There was a misconception or it might be a reality that Pakistan was a dangerous place for foreigners who want to visit here for sake of tourism, educations, jobs etc. Very small number of people were visiting Pakistan from other places of world since War against terrorism stated. There was a perception of people around the world that it is the worlds most dangerous place because every second day we could hear news of killings, terrorist attacks, suicide bombs being exploded. 

              Not more than a decade before we can see foreigners in Pakistan and they used to be happy visiting our country. Specially on the roads of Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi and places like northern areas where people from all around the world could be seen for tourism purpose. It was an attractive place for them. But since this problem of terrorism all the tourists vanished and we can see hardly a foreigner roaming openly in our streets. We can see them but very few with hard security measures. They were never walking in streets.

             Court street is a street near lower Mall Lahore. It is completely a common place where you can see lawyer in the morning who are going to attend court from their chambers. In evening when office timing is closed you can students of New Hostel, Government College Lahore and from civil lines college walking through the streets and having chit chat with each other. It is not a place where you can say very special security measures are being implemented. It is surrounded by a lower middle class society including Dev Samaj and Islampura.

              This eve I was walking around in court street I entered a juice corner, I saw a group of students who were sitting at that place. I was shocked by seeing them as I was not in any five star hotel. It was an ordinary juice corner. They were students from a University in Lahore. As i was not expecting them here I went to them and asked about Pakistan. They were very glad and were very impressed by people and their hospitality. On my question relating security issues they said that never found any security issue neither in their hostels nor in university. This made me proud because I was witnessing the our comes of a long struggle which my nation had during this last decade against terrorism. The credit goes to this nation who remained united on this issue.

             The credit also goes to our Armed forces and the Political Parties. Armed forces who fought with their best abilities, political paties who remained united at this national issue no matter what was their ideology.

Eat or pay utilities

People of our country are in a state of confusion because they don't have that much resources on the other hand they have many things to do with in their resources, things to make them survive in this world. There are few necessities which a family need in this age. One of the necessity is electricity because it is the basic power source these days and it is necessity of every house. But the increasing  rates of electricity have created a choas among people whether they should pay the bills or cook food for their children.
We have a maid who work in our house. She earns four thousand a month. She supports her husband financially who is working in a textile mill at twelve thousands a month. The couple earns fifteen to sixteen thousand a month for their children. They live in a house of two rooms with their children.
Today when she came to our house her face was a bit depressed. My mother inquired her that is there any problem on which she replied we had received an electricity bill of five thousand and it is impossible for us to pay five thousand a month for electricity because the total income of the house is not more than fifteen thousand. Their family consists of the couple and their two children. A boy who left school in ninth class because his parents could not support him for his studies further and a girl of seventeen years whom marriage is alarming them as the days are passing. Before when they face a difficult financial condition they reduced their expenses by removing their child from school but now they have no option to reduce their expense. I mean they cant stop their children from eating. A family of four people can hardly carry their food within fifteen thousand income rather than paying those luxurious utility bills which actually are not as a result of their luxury.
Unluckily our people had been entangled into such problems so that they have no time for them selves. They cant sit and think about their amusement. All the time they had to think about their survival. In such conditions we can never have a healthy atmosphere in our society. As result we could never produce thinkers.
There are many necessities of a family including food, education of children, health etc which necessary for a healthy life but this family has now even difficulty to fulfill their food which is the first necessity. The children of the family could never have standard education. If they would ever face a health emergency they would have no money to cope with the situation. How would our people survive until this barbarity of price-hiking of utilities continued by the government.  

68th Independence day but still we are mentally not independent

The 7th nuclear power of world. A country having diversity in its beauty, having mountains of Himalia, the plans of Indus, the deserts of Cholistsan, plateau of Potohar, coastal line of Mehran. This is Pakistan, a blessing of God which we got 68 year before having high hopes in our eyes. We sacrificed our everything because we wanted a place worth living. The place where human beings rather than Muslims can live independently. However, it was ideologically the foundation of an Islamic state but every body was free to get refuge here, which is a true concept of an Islamic welfare state.

India was ruled by Britishers around a century. Muslims were the people who resisted their wrong deeds. Their every social injustice was resisted by Muslims through their protests and presenting themselves for sacrifice for their brother. These were people who were physically ruled by  others, but mentally in light of teachings of their ideals and leader that they resisted for their rites and got their independent state.

Today we are living in an Independent country. We got independence 68 years ago but mentally we are not independent. We are indulged into few thoughts of our mind which stops us from thinking independently. Today we don't care if in something bad is happening in some other part of our country. We don't care if Peshawer attack happens. We just have a feeling of sadness then we move our face on other side. Today if Kasoor incident happens there is no one among us who could stand against people doing it. Living in Punjab and interior parts of country we don't care what is happening in Karachi. We just sit in front of our television screens watching everything in News and then forgetting everything. Today if Govt increases prices of something we feel bad but after sometime we pay for the same thing without protesting against that increase. 

We as a nation have stopped owing the country. We think that the system of our country is being run by someone of other world who is not approachable to us. We don't know that these people are elected by  us through our vote. They come to us every five year. They are answerable to us. We just keep on focusing our daily routine and are forgetting our social duties. As a result we had not remained independent in our thinking.          

Kasoor Insident

Pakistan being a country where every next day you can expect a news which can ruin your feelings as a human being. We as a nation are now use to these things on daily basis and had developed a habit of remaining silent on these tragedies. Here rape cases, child abuse cases are only source of point scoring of different media houses. They highlight these scandals for few days in a race of highlighting the news at first and after few days the case is buried.
This time it is Kasoor, a city not more than 100 miles from Lahore the capital headquarter of Punjab. Around three hundred children are physically abused in the city by a gang of few influential people and were blackmailed in this 21st century. No body can believe that this can happen in an atomic power country in 2015, such a greater number of people are victim, The big news was that nobody from that locality rose against this brutality because an MPA of ruling party was backing the gang. It is ridiculous, what is status of a MPA in our society. What image we are showing to the world that local MPA, DSP and SHO can do anything in our society because in this case these three people seem to be symbol of danger like they are not answerable to any one.
No body rose against them and certainly a media house highlighted the issue ant following them every channel started following it. Now this is a burning issue, It might remain for few more days. Then a committee or a commission would be formed, the issue would be buried and after not more than a month no body would remember the story. This is Pakistan.