Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country I dare to say , someone said no everything is wrong but I thought Nay . If everything is wrong then it’s a paradox and then things are right in other direction as black and white are not colors but shades but gray is a color
This month , month of January , the first month of 2012 is unlike other months because three incidents made it different . Different in a way that we out of our busy lives , discussed some trivial matter on a coffee table or social media network status and gave away 30 second of our precious time .
Unfortunate death of the Child Prodigy , Stampede resulting death of three girls in a concert and death of dozens ( 100 ) patients admitted in hospital due to some medicines marketed as life saving drugs . These three misfortunate events has something in common : One has to die in my home land to be a hero or someone to be remembered , a tradition of martyrdom is now required to jog our minds for few second . But this is not the story my story starts events before that .
While working as a Physician in a tertiary care hospital emergency for two years , in a provincial capital , it was an evident fact that we all knew . Medicines given to the patients were not only sub standard but even most of the time not even medicine and how casually we all acknowledge the fact that vials probably has water in them . The sad demise of 100 people after using aspirin and some basic non toxic medicines shocked me but later left many questions . What I was thinking as a doctor , when I was giving these medicines to the patients in Govt free dispensary , I asked myself how naïve I would be if I was not foreseeing some incident even bigger than this . Who is responsible , the Pharmaceutical Company selling poison , our good governance of Punjab claiming free treatment or hospital administration buying and passing these tenders . Answer was always there and it is even more crystal clear now . there are many people responsible for this , some more than others but truth be told , if you are looking for a guilty , you need to look into a mirror .
It is me a Pakistani who think a bad thing can happen to other guy and forget that for someone else I am the other guy . I tell my children to lie and then expect they will not cheat. I close my eyes at every brutality of myself and others and then expect it will not hunt down my own family . I spread the word and ideology of hate and then believe it will never ruin my own life . I support every injustice and show indifference to every evil and yet claim someone else for havoc .
I asked a friend now what will happen ? May be a crack down and shut down of few companies, fist full of rupees to the families of deceased by our honorable CM , some committee headed by some tyrant to look into the matter , to make an example may be few will be thrown to the jail and then what will happen , same day same night , I , the Pakistani will become indifferent to everything which is going wrong in this country from religious oppression to moral corruption . I will wait silently for my same , very same fate hiding the very next turn and become part of that martyrdom which defines my existing society .
Honesty , Love , Fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of yourself and myself remain unknown to everyone then our time has come .
Pakistan Zindabaad
