Rule Number one; I am number one
By The Pakistani Spectator • Oct 6th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized • 3 CommentsGuest Blog by Ammar Yasir.
The other day when I stopped my car on the signal I questioned myself;
What the hell I am doing?
Waiting for the green light; the voice in my head told me.
‘But why?’ I asked myself again.
Because it’s the rule! You have to stop on the red light, wait on the orange and move on when the green signal shows up. That’s the rule! But why am I following rules especially in the country where I live in. Why should I wait for the green light to show up, why should I wait in the queue for the bills, why should I follow any rules that are prescribed in the rule book at all?
Because you are a common man with little or no value and powers.
In the real world might is ultimately right. The rich and powerful get away with everything. Rules are there to create a fence between classes. So that when a VIP wants to move from one place to another in the busy traffic of Karachi city people like me should wait for their green signal under the scorching heat of the sun.
2007 is supposedly an election year for the country. But don’t we know the results? Gen. Musharraf will be the President in uniform. Ms. Bhutto probably the Prime Minister and the rest of the opportunists who call themselves politicians will get their share of the deal. Everything will be carried out right in front of the world and in the name of the national interest. I don’t know which nation they are referring to because this nation had never been involved in the decision making process and there are minute chances of this extra ordinary thing to take place in the near future. So in the end I will be fined for breaking the signal and the General will get away with breaking the constitution.
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Indeed desperate times. There is a severe sarcastic despair in this post that is the hallmark of this country.
I just posted this one on KMB
http://karachi.metblogs.com/archives/2007/10/loot_thousand_y_1.phtml
We are common man Ammar. few days ago I saw two guys fighting on gulshan chowrangi (ppl lives in Karachi knows this place). Then one of them called his brother who is a unit incharge. He comes and fire some shots in air to get on person A who beaten his brother. Person A also belongs to MQM so he also called some important personalities. Then comes our poor police, The 15 MADADGAR. They didn’t bother to interrupt them and when a guy (I think he belongs to some FM station) ask them then the officer told him that, “O Yarr hum kya kareen humain tow inhoon nae bola hai k hamara aapas ka mamla hai ap beech main na aoo” (O dear, what can we do? they said its their personal matter and you dont interrupt us)
@ MB
desperate as well as disappointing times I say.
@Xpikon
this is so common Hassan. Everybody knows about it but nobody dares to point their fingers on issues such as this. But the most disturbing fact about this lawlessness is that for some this act is normal. We as a nation cant even differentiate between the right and wrong.