I was amazed to hear on
television that Opposition Leader Mr. Khursheed Shah while addressing a
political gathering in some where KhyberpakhtunKhwa said that if someone wants
to see good governance, high quality medical facilities being provided to
patients and quality education is being provided to children of Sindh, he may
visit Sindh to witness the development in all three sectors.
The opposition leader is living in the era of 90s, where there was no access to
news, and nobody was aware of developments and happenings around. Now
communication has become so easier. He must know that we are living in era of
‘social media’. If electronic media missed something alarming to cover the
social media is there to fill the gap immediately. Now everybody have access to
news and events happening in any part of the country either in Balochistan,
Sindh or anywhere in the country. In recent pass we have witnessed massive
social media campaigns seeking justice or inviting attention of authorities
towards that social issues.
Perhaps Mr. Khursheed Shah don’t know the facts or he is deliberately hiding the
facts. Everybody knows that Sindh is home of corruption. Every department of
Sindh either education department, health department, revenue department or
police department all are sinked in corruption. Hospitals have neither medicines
nor doctors, the paramedics are practicing their doctorial skills on poor
patients, according to many reports there are thousands of ghost schools in
Sindh. The revenue department and police department have high grade of political
influence. There is no access to the justice and people have to pay bribe to get
their legal matters done in revenue and police department.
The head of departments, the so
called leaders are also involved in corruption. In past Mr. Sharjil Inaam Memon
and Dr. Asim Hussain have been arrested on billions of rupees corruption
charges. The provincial or federal governments have been failed to take concrete
steps to eradicate corrupt practices among its ranks.
On the other hand the army had been putting pressure on the provincial
authorities to handle the corruption cases and remove the corrupt ministers from
their portfolios. The authorities in Sindh didn’t bother to take action properly
and just changed the portfolios of ministers while doing little changes and
moving the same corrupt people from one ministry to another.
The matter of fact is that the whole gang is involved in making money by looting
public money. Mr. Khursheed Shah, must recognize that still the people of sindh
are living in 18th century, with no medical / health care facilities, no quality
education and no justice. In 21st century, today as well a human being and a
donkey have to drink water from the same pond. Still there are babies who are
dying due to non provision of medical facilities and male nutrition. Yes
thousand of women dies during delivery due to non availability of proper medical
facilities. Yes there are lacs of children compelled to do labour because of
poverty.
Mr. Khurshed Shah is talking about some other Sindh, our Sindh is sinked in
corruption because of their lust of money. Now the things have been changing
people got awareness through social media and want to bring change. They wants
to shake the system. They talks about rights of peasants the labour who are the
backbone of our economy. Equal rights for all, talks about their all due rights
including health facilities, education to their children, shelter for them,
provision of jobs and justice.
Zubair Akbar Tahir