The ranks and file of PPP is up in arms over the supposedly unsavoury remarks made by the PML-N leaders, particularly, MNA Sa'ad Rafiq, against the Bhutto-Zardari dynasty, on October 12, to mark the black day of 1999, when General Pervez Musharraf, toppled the PML-N government in a military coup.
Though uncouth, unsavoury, unparliamentary and uncalled for remarks, as these utterances may sound, honestly speaking, how many times in a day a common citizen, traumatised, disgusted, frustrated, cheated, dispossessed, discriminated and perpetually harassed, makes the same remarks, under excruciatingly unbearable prevalent circumstances across the country?
Each time one passes by the sprawling and ostentatious Raiwind estate, spread over hundreds of acres of land, isn't the same question asked? Don't we ask the same question when we see paupers of yesteryears and their families, owning overseas properties worth billions of defrauded dollars?
Crooked, corrupt, self-serving and expedient dynastical leaders and politicians have squandered billions of dollars of this impoverished nation. When one hears about the laundered money, illegitimate commissions, kickbacks of astronomical proportion that have been invested by the these so-called leaders, well-wishers of the nation and champions of democracy to acquire most expensive overseas properties, isn't the same question asked? Isn't the same question asked of the big time bank loan defaulters who have defrauded the poor nation with billions of rupees?
Don't we ask the same question when scores of bullet proof expensive vehicles, at the horrendous cost of millions of dollars, are acquired for the personal use of incompetent ministers, inept advisors and crony leaches? The same question is asked when roads, thoroughfares, blocked and traffic disrupted for hours to allow passage of a VVIP motorcade during peak hours. Don't we ask the same question when the ordinary commuters are subjected to excruciating inconvenience of denial of access to a public roads, running into hundreds of metres, blocked, cordoned off, barricaded and speed breakers laid illegally, just because there exists a residence of a VVIP.
Unsavoury as it may be, but is it not the wrenching cry of an impoverished nation? Finally and for the information of general public and the many "Jagirdars," of the country, "Pakistan Meray Baap Ki Jagir Nahin Hai" and I am proud of my deceased father!