Democracy builds people into nation

City elders say misfortune never comes alone, most of time it is the end-result of our own mistakes in any circumstances. If we cannot learn from our blunders it’s better to seek guidance from Almighty God’s message. The Divine guidance will help us tide over all social, economic and political problems and turn our homeland into a sovereign welfare state.

Elders are right. Masses may not look very happy with mode of governance which they say has not saved them from poverty, hunger and disease.

According to a human rights commission, about 15 persons were dying of hunger across the country every day sometime ago, and this happened under the nose of our leaders.

Even today elders assert such people have forgotten the lessons of Islam as regards peace, prosperity and welfare of mankind, which in other words enjoins all well-to-do and ruling classes of society to help the state provide bread, clothing and shelter to the poverty-ridden men, women and children on the basis of the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity.

“This is the spirit of democracy which unites and builds people into a nation possessed of healthy economy and strong defence,” elders assert.

In fact, nobody has ever bothered seriously about what is needed to make the country a progressive state. That’s why we today face the problem of ‘roti, kapra aur makan’ for about 190 million.

The poor can’t afford the highly inflated prices of wheat flour, sugar, milk and cooking oil etc.

Why people, even today, talk about the yesterday’s struggle for the present industrial and agricultural progress of the Chinese nation with a view to learning from them? China won freedom two years after we achieved Pakistan in 1947.

Our masses, too, have the same potential and quality of working together for national rebuilding after devastating rains and floods. Only selfless leaders are needed to work manually and mentally along with common people setting aside party motives.

People need clean drinking water, fuel and electricity, bumper wheat, rice and sugar-cane crops and edible oil etc. for honourable living at a price which is within their reach.

To achieve such a target, building dams is as necessary as offering prayers: therein lies the secret of our good future life, argue the city elders.  

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