Traffic jams inconvenience common man

The postponement of national census is not a good news. A responsible official source says it won’t be possible for the government to hold it during the next two years meaning thereby that this year’s as well as the next year’s annual budget would be prepared on mere conjectures and guess estimates. For all practical purposes, the national census cannot be carried out during the tenure of the present government and 2018 would be the election year. The same goes for annual developmental schemes which would also be prepared on rough estimates rather than concrete latest population data. Such state of affairs, obviously, result in lopsided development. The last census were held in the country in 1998. It is essential that census are held after every 10 years. We will be holding it after 20 years if we waited till 2018 which is pathetic.
Let us admit that successive governments in this country have been responsible for the misplaced priorities. The politicians don’t look serious in holding the census. Till how long they would pull wool on the eyes of common man and refuse to face realities?They were also not enthusiastic about holding elections to the local bodies. But for the pressure of the Supreme Court they would never have been held. It seems the apex court would have to force them to arrange national census also!
The right to protest is acceptable in a democratic entity. This right, however, is to be exercised in a fair way. The manner in which daily life was paralysed by the fans of Mumtaz Qadri, after he was hanged the other day in a murder case is just not on. The shopkeepers were forced by them to close their shops. Vehicles moving on the roads in and around the federal capital were stoned thus forcing the police to block many roads with the result that the common man was put to a lot of inconvenience. Many patients needing urgent medical attention could not reach hospitals in time. Why don’t the politicians adopt civilised ways of protesting like buying air time on private television channels which are available by the dozen and say through the media whatever they wanted to say instead of blocking the roads and creating traffic jams which only inconvenience the general public and, in turn, invoke imprecations of the common man against them.