That Business Recorder op-ed writers Huzaima Bukhari and Dr Ikramul Haq are profound insofar as their articulation is concerned is a fact. "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor" - Seneca.

In their 'To have or to be' carried by the newspaper a week ago they have rightly pointed out the fact that "since the last fifteen years in these columns, we are constantly warning consecutive governments of the ever widening rich-poor divide because of short-sighted policies and an extremely faulty revenue system of the country yet not a single step has been taken in the direction of remedying this ever-growing monster that is now staring in the eyes of the people of Pakistan."

I would like to add to these writers argument by recalling a quote of Lord Acton, the famous English Catholic historian, politician and writer: "Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes a poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2017