Let’s end politics, mend Pakistan

How much creative are the minds of the poor -- literate or illiterate? On the basis of long observation and experience one can say ‘very creative’ if they’re provided with opportunities to live like humans, not animals, in farms and factories, city restaurants and hotels, or BBQs.
Even if they feel there’s no social and economic justice around most of them think of standing on their legs by working and working hard.
One has seen many poor keeping the pot boiling in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Peshawar and Karachi also. In the twin cities some of the poor can be seen eating it all, down to the last morsel -- after all, unemployment and poverty has not yet vanished despite serious attempt by the administration. “We’ll have to call an end to such a business-like politics and mend our homeland in the national interest, we all need to shed selfishness and work in an environment of equality and harmony for social and economic progress and power to defend the motherland against aggression from any side,” say the poor to the lower middle when they come across each other at any point on Murree Road or on The Mall.
The poor, also called have-nots by intellectuals, do have creative and constructive mind; that doesn’t matter, we’ve to accept the fact that many turn thieves because they’re paid Rs100 per day by rich owners of restaurants and BBQs, and the wage earners can’t support their families.
How the poor think of what they call mending “our mismanaged home” and making it prosperous in all every respect?
Very confidently they speak as if they know a lot about the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. They point out we’ve lost the fullness of our noble character. To them character is highest sense of honour and the highest sense of integrity, conviction, incorruptibility, readiness at time to efface oneself for the collective good of the nation.
The poor, educated but jobless, uneducated but talented and skilled, say: “if we are really true Pakistanis we should even now get determined to mend our ways of living, thinking and doing things in order to make the homeland a State based on principles of equality and social justice.”
By the way, a resident of Rawalpindi who is working as an officer in a fertiliser company in Karachi, told this scribe that he was looted at gunpoint by some ‘dakus’ who said they had been ‘doing this criminal act’ because they had been forced by unemployment and poverty.
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