The way things are going on in the country, one is forced to wonder about the relevance of the government. What has it done for the country and the people - absolutely nothing. The economy is perpetually at rock bottom. After the last time when people had foreign currency accounts, the government ended them. Now no businessman in his right mind ever keeps his income from exported items in any Pakistani bank, because now no one trusts the government and there is no reason to. No one wants to make the same mistake. Once was more than enough.
A top priority is banking secrecy. The government should never question why someone is depositing a a large sum of money in any bank or withdrawing. No one should know. The government should interfere in bank deposits and withdrawals. But government wants to make its business. It strange when someone wants to buy a new car, unless there is proper documentation on the money which is being paid for its purchase. Why does the government want such ridiculous details. In any case new cars over a million rupees, that is too much. A brand new car should be more than a hundred thousand rupees.
All these rules and regulations have invented by civil servants, not by the incompetent politicians. The civil servants add one stupid rule after another. No one can build a house, unless one bribes countless officials in several departments. Corruption rules and the government is incapable of stopping it. There is corruption in electricity supply. People overcharged for electricity not supplied.
The country is ruled by decree not by proper debate. One might as well ask, why should not Pakistan charge the USA for its bases here. They have been here for almost ten years. They should be paying $1 billion per day since they day they set foot in Pakistan. But the government is too scared to say anything about that. They have done everything to protect the American Centre in Karachi and everywhere else in Pakistan. Are US lives more precious than the lives of Pakistanis? It certainly seems to be that way.
We cannot afford to have a government which bows down to the needs of a foreign power and subverts the needs of the people on their behalf. We have to get rid of such a government which largely comprised of the same people General Zia's regime. They same mullahs are in power. We need freedom and tolerance. We need to end the rule of different kinds of authorities and boards all these are dens of extensive corruption.
When the government is unable resolve problems of unemployment, rising prices then it does not deserve to exist.
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