It is not so clear to those that are in the forest that a new economic social contras act has to be developed. It will not come by itself, it never has and as the world changes, the pressure on Pakistan will mount. In some ways, Pakistan was already there in 1972-73, when the East Pakistan debacle took place.
It has to be understood that the requirements can not be forced down any one's throat and sooner than later, the fire engulfs all. The rural areas and the peripheral areas are under severe strain. The North and South Waziristan are not a haven for terrorists, but it is a fact that our development has all been exclusively for the rich and the powerful in the large urban towns. We neglected even the poor in these urban towns and we now have a pavement population in Islamabad. We will get more of this if we go on as we are at the moment. The law and the rule of imaginations are different. Policies that held earlier are of no use today.
Take the FDI and the rule is clear. The FDIs that our parrots speak of are exploitative and do not lend any credence to the welfare of our masses. Take the Musharraf regime. What will you do with the IT revolution as the fat slobs call it? Have they not taken more than what they invested within a year? Shall we look at the forex repatriation figures? Have we not sold our silver? Why have the clauses of making these telephones not been included in the negotiated clauses of the agreements? Why were safeguards not included? I fail to understand some minister from the Musharraf regime holding up a Samsung or a Nokia mobile telephone as a success of another country and hoping that we will be able to get that far in our electronics. The ministers of ours are not in tune with the economics of this country. The rich powerful class and the poor masses do not equate themselves and this disconnect is going to be severely destructive. Every now and then, these disconnect get so serious that the country gets into a tailspin. Inflation has meant that the poor will suffer to the point that they will have no other option but to become criminals. With our police already instep with the criminals (Mohammad Hussein - the confessions of a car lifter) on record what can the police do but hold themselves responsible for what they have become - all and sundry. Where are the police reforms today, in the dustbin? The police are responsibly irresponsible and if you do not believe me, go to the police station and try having your problems sorted out by them.
The housing market is not for the few. The London riots have proved this to the preachers that their own house is not in order. Phases in the housing sector do not matter, neither do the exotic names. Give then whatever name you can, for the majority detests the so-called investors for they are considered pariahs of the social system. The rural landscape is in a mess. The District Magistrate, the Deputy Commissioner and the Collector are no longer in position. The TV is full of misunderstandings as to the role of these troika designations and I do not know of a scribe who has done any work on this. The DCO is a eunuch? So are the EDO and the entire structure that was built on the directions of the USA - a farce and something that was done in an outlandish and culturally moronic manner. Yes, the UNDP did, on behalf of the USA as the UNDP chief told me.
There has been much talk of bringing the earlier system back. I am afraid that the system was run by personnel that were trained for that kind of work. Human resource development is not like sharpening a pencil - instant development. Human resource is not that easily built. Human stuff was built for courage and for hard work. They were the eyes and ears of society. The iron grid system and if it had outlived its utility so have the others. Now one has the jelly mass for an administrative structure that can be manipulated, as they want to. Lies predominate.
Cheating seems to prosper. Criminality is on the increase. Is any country going to survive this kind of mindless onslaught? Karachi will be sorted out, my foot. It is not going to be sorted out by power means, but by addressing the underlying causes. Have we not learnt the lessons from East Pakistan?
The revenue acts have to be gone through as also the tenancy and the land administrative manual, not to talk of the land acquisition act of 1894. We have no one who can perceive local conditions and then set them on a piece of paper for the policymakers what to talk of legislate, an act based on social conditions obtaining in the country. I have already dilated on the wisdom of the macroeconomists. How well is the country doing on data is immaterial for what matters is happiness. Have you ever tried a graph on human happiness, a GDH instead of a GDP? The vast majority will overwhelm what has been in the making in the last six decades. We are a society where any decency is taken as weakness.
Money is wealth because it has been ill-earned? Tell me of a single person who has lit the markets and made money? The psychology of cheat economics is well-served these days. There are people who have been woodpeckers for as long as one can remember; pecking away at one commodity and all kinds of idiotic undertakings. They have been wasters of our society's resources. Depraved but not deprived they have made all kinds of associations that have malfunctioned. The audit reports are at hand and yet they are going about with the destiny of the nation in their hands. At least some of them are.
The call is for a steady hand and a ready mind that will steer us away from disaster and take us to a more harmonious living condition. No hysterics and no calisthenics just pure and simple administrative management. There was much in the structure of the administration. That has been thrown wide open with a purpose. They do not want managers and workers but servile slaves and that is what they have got and now they want actions of a courageous kind? What cheek!
I suggest that the economic parrots go to the Austrian economic school if at all and see what kind of work has been done there - consider Mensis and others. The current school teachings of the west are not in balance and the Austrians came up with wonderful alternatives. The economic equations from the west [as they are finding out] are not correct, neither is the calculus that is located in these equations. Why a nightingale when one is a crow?
Are we the ready for the making of our own brand of socio-economic management; determining our own needs and our own ways of doing things. Is it impossible? That is so in the books of the fools and not of courageous men. Are we a courageous nation? I leave it to you.
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