A
ventilator basically in literal meanings, is a life support in case of failure
of breathing post heart attack or brain related diseases. It is a device that
introduces fresh air or expels foul air.Most recently this artificial breathing
machine has become known to everyone. Doctors use it as the last ditched effort
to save or revive the human body. Ventilator has become a symbol to indicate
the bad situation. Our politics and government too seem to be on ventilator.
There
are four basic ingredients to appropriately run our state system, which include
economy, foreign policy, national security and democratic system but
unfortunately all these vital and core ingredients have lost their
effectiveness over the period of time due to bad governance and incompetency of
the relevant authorities, causing turmoil and instability in the country. These
damaged parts of the system have thus been put to ventilator support and these are
in dire need of a proper treatment to be able to breathe the way they are meant
to be without any artificial support.
The
current status of our economy is on ventilation and is being monitored and
treated on day to day basis as the virus of external and internal loans is
expanding, growth rate is falling, inflation is on rise and value of rupee is
declining. Unfortunately, our economic advisors are unable to halt the
situation. Moreover, the effects of putting Pakistan on grey list of FATF would
adversely affect Pakistan’s economy and will make it further harder for us to
meet rising foreign financing needs, including future borrowings from the
International Monetary Fund. It will directly impact our imports, exports and
mobility as it is like unannounced international embargo saddening every
Pakistani that will further make the economy sick.
Our
government needs to enable the economy to be free of ventilation and for that
we need a team of competent economists to make the economy healthy without the
support of a ventilator. We have been suffering internationally as we ourselves
have given this chance to the enemies of Pakistan to make us helpless and
isolated on almost every diplomatic front. The ad hoc foreign policy has been
forced to be on ventilator for not being looked after by Foreign Ministry, as
we had no foreign minister to cope with it. I hope we’ll make it independent of
ventilator by making it stronger in a way that we formulate some long-term
foreign policies healthier to enabling us to contain further damage by our
enemies. It is the need of hour that we take our foreign policies out of the
ventilator and allow them to be healthier to face the international challenges
especially from the hostile neighbours. The nation wants ventilator free foreign
policy and free of incompetence virus.
In
the same way, the national security system of our country needs permanent cure
and continued updating and care. The National Action Plan was introduced in
January 2015 with the view to improve our national security policies in order
to impose a crackdown on terrorism and it did take out the national security
from ventilator but again the failure of its implementation has brought it back
on ventilator as out of our 22 agreed areas, many remained unattended due to indifferent
attitude of the government due to its political objectives. We cannot allow our
national security issues to remain forsaken and the civilian government must
realise that inadequate national security is like a cancer, which eats away the
peace from society. Where there is no peace, there is no development and hence
we need healthy and independent powerful national security and not ventilator
dependent national security.
We firmly believe that democracy is the way forward for the country and now our democracy has also been shifted to ventilator by lota-cracy and horse-trading. The vote has been made a saleable commodity and the elections are contested through huge spending especially with the ill-gotten money. Unfortunately, the post-election era becomes the recovery period of money spent along with the interest.This situation of horse-trading and lust for power is endangering democracy as the leaders look forward to shift their loyalties not for the cause of country but the artificially created winning impression for a party.
The
performance of democracy is decreasing since it has been overtaken by
ill-gotten money, blocking the way for middle as well as educated class.
Resultantly you see the level of input in the assemblies by many
parliamentarians as zero.
Frankly
speaking, our politics is going sick day by day in the hands of greed and lust
leaving the national interest far behind. We have made our political system
ventilator dependent as we engineered and manipulated democracy, which remains
on ventilator during the five years of a government trying to recover from the
sick and deteriorating out dated system. We as a nation perhaps do not like to
believe in rule of law rather believe to make laws to be ruled.
Will
the leadership and people wake up to clean our political system? In my personal
views, the parliamentary system has crippled us and brought our political
democratic system on ventilator. Should we not revert to presidential system to
have a top leader like USA directly from the people of Pakistan and not through
horse-trading?
There
should be a law to eliminate horse trading from political system to make this
country a real democracy. It is so heartening to see that our major
administrative and political organs are incapacitated and many are on
ventilation struggling to survive and some are heading the same fate because of
the deteriorating economy. The nation needs fresh air with hope and prosperity
and that would be possible only once we are out of ventilator of IMF, World
Bank, international donors, borrowing from friends. Just imagine what would we
face if they decided to stop this artificial ventilation as, so far, these
international donors have deliberately forced us to be on the especially
designed ventilator.
We are trying to survive with this present economic ventilator & its dependency is pushing us towards bankruptcy. It is time for us to chalk out a plan to get rid of ventilator dependent economy before it is too late and our rupee slides further.
The
international anti-Pak designers are pushing us towards awkward situations, as
we should not forget that the West has never liked Pakistan to have emerged as
a nuclear state. We must learn lesson from the disintegration of Soviet Union
and become more alert of the intentions of the West. Let us make our beloved
country foreign debt free-state like Turkey and live like a nation with pride
and not as a nation having begging bowl in hand.
In
the end, I would request you to join me to pray that our nation gets rid of the
ventilator dependent economy, foreign policy, national security and political
system.
The Article has been Published in
‘’THE NEWS’’ on dated July 9th, 2018
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