New Provinces or Focus on Governance
The fault lines over new provinces are now coming into focus.
It is increasingly evident who stands where, and with whom.
The intentionally fragmented camp of the state aristocracy is now coalescing.
It will soon be apparent who truly represents the citizens and who does not.
In other words, those who oppose the creation of new provinces and
those who advocate for focus on governance will be the ones speaking for the citizens.…
Hacking at the Roots : Uprooting the Roots
Farooq Qaiser created two characters:
“Jarr Wadh” — the one who cuts the roots, and
“Jarr Putt” — the one who pulls the roots out.
It appears that these are the very two characters who are still running the State of Pakistan!…
An Even Bigger Deception Than Loadshedding: A Unilateral Agreement
An Even Bigger Deception Than Loadshedding: A Unilateral Agreement
The core issue is that electricity is being sold at an arbitrarily dictated price. The government’s proxy, “NEPRA,” merely echoes the government’s position. The government’s “appendages” — the DISCOs — function as outlets for fleecing citizens.
What is urgently and immediately required is a Bilateral Agreement between electricity consumers and electricity suppliers. For example, if loadshedding occurs, or if excessive voltage damages consumers’ appliances, the supplier must be held liable to provide compensation. Khalil…
سیاسی جماعتیں ہی مسئلہ ہیں
موجود سیاسی جماعتوں میں سے کوئی بھی جماعت حل نہیں۔
یہ سب کی سب مسئلہ ہیں۔…
The Ashrafiya Parliament
The Ashrafiya Parliament
This Parliament House was clearly not built
for representatives of the people to safeguard their rights.
It looks more like a palace for the Political Ashrafiya (سیاسی اشرافیہ)
to safeguard their own interests.…
PIMS Tragedy – Dead Governance
If a fire breaks out in the children’s ward / nursery of a hospital,
and children are killed and injured,
while the Prime Minister’s House does not catch fire,
and the Chief Ministers’ Houses in all four provinces do not catch fire,
then this is not merely dead governance,
but rather deliberately negative governance.…
Divide Islamabad into 52 provinces
Minced Reasoning…
To improve governance, Islamabad should also be divided into 52 provinces!
PIMS Tragedy – Dead Governance…
The State and the Citizens: The Right to Record Video
Citizens should have the right to record video in every government office and building, including police stations, courts, hospitals, and other public-dealing institutions, as required.
This would be a critically important step toward improving governance.
This right is also essential because the entire state apparatus is funded by taxpayers’ money and is accountable to them.
It must be noted that this does not refer to self-styled journalists, but to granting this right to affected citizens.…
Journalism and the Murder of Common Sense
According to a report in Jang (August 25), a new feat of the bureaucracy has come to light: 33 retired officials are receiving their pensions in foreign currency after relocating abroad.
How is this a feat of the bureaucracy?
This is, in fact, the doing of the political aristocracy (ریاستی اشرافیہ) that runs the affairs of government and that has granted these officials pensions in foreign currency.
Journalism has also kicked “common sense” to the curb.…
Social Politics and Envy
If an individual decides to struggle against an unjust law, system, or State Aristocracy (ریاستی اشرافیہ), then more than half of that struggle must be waged against those who act as the divine custodians of that system.
This does not yet include those closest to him who, out of envy, become his enemies. Nor does it include those who harbor baseless animosity toward him.
A confrontation with those who actually run the system comes much later. Khalil…
Has Shehbaz Sharif ever crossed a road in Pakistan?
The Ashrafiya do go for a “walk”…
But do they ever cross the road?
How many members of the Ashrafiya in Pakistan
would have ever needed to cross a road?
Or how many times would Shehbaz Sharif
have crossed a road in Pakistan?
Think about it……
In war and love, and in Pakistan, everything goes
Not only in war and love,
but also in ‘Pakistan,’ everything goes.
Khalil…
Our Brand is Crisis! The system has collapsed type of politics
“Our Brand is Crisis!”
The system has collapsed type of politics
The system has collapsed.
Yes, 100 percent correct judgement.
And the reason is the slogan,
“The system has collapsed.” is part of the
anti-system politics.…
The Patient, The Hospital, and The Deal
If the “patient” has been sent to the “hospital”
as a result of a “deal,”
then there is no longer any need for any court —
from the trial court to the Supreme Court.
And if the Supreme Court,
disregarding the Jail Manual,
has granted a benefit to the “patient,”
then the Supreme Court itself has committed a deviation from the law.…
The system has collapsed
Absolutely correct. One hundred percent correct.
The system has fallen apart!
That is precisely why people like Mohsin Naqvi
have managed to infiltrate the system.
What happened when the wall of my dilapidated house fell
people made pathways through my courtyard.
Sibt-e-Ali Saba…
Even the Proxy Parties Want Provinces!
Those petty, two-bit parties
that thrive on violence, extortion, and patronage.
That have no connection whatsoever
to the Constitution, the law, or ethics.
Even they are demanding new provinces.
What to speak of the insignificant,
and even the broth of the insignificant!…
Intellectual Independence is the jewel
How do things happen?
Under a conducive environment?
No.
Under adverse circumstances?
No.
Only when individuals assert their intellectual independence!…
New Provinces: Yes or No — The Solution is a Referendum
What the establishment thinks, and does not think,
about new provinces and their number is of absolutely no importance.
What matters is what the people of Pakistan think about new provinces.
Therefore, a referendum should be held on the matter of new provinces.…
آزادی کا مطلب: یعنی یہ آزادی کسے مِلی اور کس لیے مِلی؟
آزادی کا مطلب:
یعنی یہ آزادی کسے مِلی اور کس لیے مِلی؟
’’اگر پاکستان نہ بنتا تو برصغیر کی مسلم اشرافیہ کو دوبارہ حاکم بننے کی آزادی نہ ملتی!‘‘
14 اگست 1947 سے پہلے اس آزادی کا کیا مطلب تھا، جو بھی تھا وہ تاریخ کا حصہ بنا۔
14 اگست کے بعد اس آزادی کا جو مطلب بنا اصل میں وہ اہم ہے۔ کیونکہ یہی مطلب ہے جس نے پاکستان میں بسنے والے انسانوں کو حیوانوں سے ملتی جلتی زندگی گزارنے پر مجبور کر دیا ہے۔ آئیے اس مطلب کو سمجھنے کی کوشش کرتے ہیں:
- 14 اگست کو آزادی ملی برصغیر کی مسلم اشرافیہ کو ایک نئے ملک پاکستان میں دوبارہ حاکم بننے کی
- 14 اگست کو آزادی ملی پاکستان میں آباد اور آ بسنے والے مختلف گروہوں کو اشرافیہ بننے کی
- 14 اگست کو آزادی ملی اشرافیہ کے پرانے نئے طبقات کو خود میں ایک نئی زندگی پھونکنے
اُٹھا کر ریلوے بھی ڈھیر پہ کوڑے کے دے مارا
With apologies to Sir Iqbal:
We have squandered the legacy we inherited from the British,
We have even hauled the railways and dumped it on a rubbish heap.
Khalil…