Wednesday 11 March 2015

Mind The Gaps


Pakistan is going through a rough phase of instability since the time of its inception. The country is one of the most vulnerable states on the Global Peace Index, Global Gender Gap Index, Global Terrorism Index and Human Development Index. There are only two reasons which integrate all these horrible problems and they are security gap and political instability.

The lack of security gap which includes economic security and personal security is something which all the governments have horribly failed to provide their citizens. There are no strong and viable on ground policies which provide economic boost to socio economic strata. If policy makers start making effective and viable cost effective policies according to the country needs which then be debated and healthily criticized by the intellectuals. After that these policies get implemented by the concern authorities. In this manner the system can be built properly and channelized from the grass root level to the upper hierarchy. After this comes the personal security gap, which from couple of years has flared up and destroyed our country from economic to psychological dimensions. The violent terrorist attack has ruined the country internally and externally. To some extent which has been created by our leaders themselves for their own calculated greedy incentives. The external intervention do exists and adding fuel to the fire but the gateway was totally provided by us. As Pakistan is no more, left as a nation-state. Now what needs to be done is to deal all of the irritating rats with iron hand no matter what caste, color and creed do they belong to. No intervention of any international humanitarian organization or country should be bare anymore. The speedy trials are the need of an hour. It’s the right time to use help of military courts effectively and justice should not be delayed. The clean sweep operation is the only valid solution.

Further all the existing difficulties combined with sectarianism have fragmented the country badly. Being logically optimistic all of these various challenges can be resolved effectively as they are man-made. But the bad news is that this solution cannot be implemented due to the same reason that they exist and will make it really hard to fix all the above mentioned challenges. Now this is the fruit which we are bearing of our politics. Pakistani politics is a hell dirty game. The greed of personal incentives has eaten up the whole concept of nationalism. The war is of personal egos and power. There are very few politicians who are working for the betterment of this country and are acting as a ray of hope. But the majority is fairly corrupt. The political instability has brought lot of challenges for the country and its economy. What needs to be done is to come up with real solutions. The government needs to build national consensus while making policies, bring political reforms with revival of compromise culture and maintain the good governance measures. 
 
The existing crises have torn our reputation in the world. The government needs to address all these above mentioned gaps which are widening very speedily. All the four pillars of the state have to work collectively to combat the deteriorating situation. These gaps are ultimate results of wrong policies which are being practiced in our country. Thus the ultimate consequences which are emerging are far more painful and costly.