This is indeed a sad and shameful moment for all of us. It is also a tragic reflection on the state of affairs prevailing in the country. Both unemployment and poverty levels continue to rise despite the official blow of trumpets to the contrary.
The ground realities are tragic and poverty conditions continue to slide to new depths year after year. With the past and current policy of lip service accorded by officialdom to remove the bottlenecks bring in massive investments and absorb the flood of current unemployment, no hope of improvement can be expected.
The successive governments' apathy in this context seems to be incredible and one is forced to draw adverse conclusions with regards to the governments, actual intentions. Did the successive government, over the last 50 years pursue policies to actually increase unemployment, and poverty as per Western agenda?
The current state of affairs can't all be out of ignorance or mismanagement. Some of the bottlenecks of investment are the impossibility of getting a redressal at any forum including the courts for injustice, high handedness from the power-drunk bureaucracy.
Fleecing by financial institutions in violation of the existing law, surprisingly with the collaboration of the State Bank of Pakistan, which is vested with the responsibility of protecting the people from such cheating. Between 70 to 100 departments that have been let lose on the industry which bleeds business houses and hounds them with blackmail and extortion etc.
Last but not least, the abysmal law and order conditions, is due to the politicising and criminalising of the security (including the police) apparatus. A very large portion of the security apparatus, including the Police, CIA & FIA etc are criminals, illiterate and corrupt to the core.
The totality of the bottlenecks has been communicated to the corridors of powers many, many times, during the last several decades. Pakistan was not built for the people to be reduced to dust devoid of all rights, while a handful of people from the bureaucracy and feudals plunder the people and the country dry.
Judiciary, the supposed guardian of public rights, is in tatters, and is under the thumb of the government and mostly rubber-stamps whatever the government does or desires. Several judicial decisions are on record one more criminally ridiculous than the other.
It is time that the silent majority asserts itself, to resist such barbarity and plunder, to save this unfortunate country, in whatever manner and way it can. The government will not and cannot help the people.