Change demands sacrifice

"Our life may not be as sweet as it used to be long time ago, but we have to exercise patience and share each other's happiness as we're passing through hard times despite some relief provided by administration," say salaried people. Similarly, housewives have their own story about food prices, but they react angrily to malnutrition.

Everybody is a consumer. So, citizens do feel impact on their daily life when in spite of administration's effort to arrest food price hike there is abrupt rise in vegetable, fruit, milk, yogurt and meat prices.

A United Nations Development Programme official said the other day the people of Pakistan are so capable and intelligent, but they're not making more progress than they should in terms of poverty reduction and inequality. Perhaps, he forgot that now-defeated terrorists were creating hurdle in our socio-economic progress.

Now wealthy sections of society may not take time in realising that beneficial change demands, as he said, sacrificing short-term, individual and family interest.

The heartening news is that our country is fighting devastating malnutrition with mass food fortifying programme.