The Pakistani Spectator

People have even become tired of venting out their anger and frustration and haplessness through the text messages. Now, we don’t really get to read those innovative and terse messages encompassing a world of despair in few characters. Such is the degree of hopelessness which is now ubiquitous from Karachi to Khyber.

The biggest and urgent problem is right now of the electricity shortage. It has sucked the life out of the Pakistan. It’s surely a man made disaster and the current inept regime is adding to the woes. In Pakistan electricity is now Rs 7 per unit and it will be increased after every two months due to the American IMF policies. Iran has agreed to give electricity on an urgent basis to us at the very cheap rate of Rs 1.18 per unit. Also China has offered Pakistan electricity with just a monthly household bill of Rs 300 for unlimited usage but our government is not taking this seriously.

Are we so fearful of the America tycoons that we are forced to accept their rental power plants and not going for the cheaper options?

Kunda System and the power theft is still there, though government resorted to some cosmetics measures earlier. KESC, IESCO etc who, if they were serious about tackling the increasingly critical power shortage, would, first and foremost remove every single kunda connection throughout the country so that paying customers get their due. But it seems that they have played their role in the drama and are now mere spectators.

When load shedding strikes, the real people of this country, those struggling to survive and who are, let’s not forget it, the worker ants gluing Pakistan together, grind to a frustrated halt as their support net evaporates.