Might is right, so goes an age old adage. One witnesses almost daily instances which prove its truth. There is also an urdu proverb which says that whatever money can do for you cannot be done for you either by your father or brother. We have seldom seen any filthy rich getting his just deserts in this country. Even if someone is arrested he manages to come out of the jail after spending a few days behind the bars on one pretext or the other. Money and political clout play a big part in his release.
We have seen many criminals making victory signs with their two fingers before the TV cameras on their release from the jail as if they had done some thing spectacular. If Sir Winston Churchill had made victory sign he was fully justified in doing so as he had won the Second World War by defeating Hitler. What have these filthy rich of this country done that they too emulate him by making such victory signs before the camera’s eye?
A word of advice for the new rulers of this country:Never ever make a promise with the people which you cannot keep or have no intention of keeping it for one reason or the other. Late ZA Bhutto had once declared back in the late 1960s that on coming to power he would make those living in rented houses as owner of those houses. When he came to power hundreds of lesses in a city of the KPK refused to pay rent to their landlords who then had to take recourse to the courts for getting them ejected from their houses.
Nobody objects to the running of this country on the model of Riasat-e Madina but may we ask the finance minister a simple question:was there any concept of usury and interest in the Riasat-e-Madina? Pakistan, according to his own admission is paying Rs 6 billion daily as interest on its foreign loans.
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