Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Islamabad (UrduPoint News International/ Pakistan Point News - DW Urdu - December 31, 2024) The end of the year 2024 is now a matter of hours, not weeks or days. It is impossible to deny the fact that the majority of Pakistan's poor and middle class citizens have reached the limits of their material endurance, reeling under the inflationary pressure. There is also a clear political division in the country and what kind of 'justice' is being done to whom, this has become a long debate.
As far as the public order situation is concerned, this year too hundreds of innocent citizens in Pakistan lost their lives at the hands of terrorism and religious extremism.
According to official figures, this year too, around a thousand people, including many security force personnel, were killed in terrorist attacks by various militant groups and banned extremist organizations in Pakistan.
In addition, a total of more than 900 militants were also killed by Pakistani security forces this year, making this year the deadliest year in the last half a decade.
More Pakistanis left their homeland this year than all the citizens who died in Pakistan this year, either through legal emigration or through human trafficking gangs, hoping for a better social and economic future abroad.
Out of the thousands of Pakistanis who tried to reach Europe by smuggling themselves through dangerous land and sea routes for a better life, dozens of them got lost forever this year in the waters of these seas, which they were supposed to cross to reach some European country.
A large number of Pakistanis living in Pakistan and who have said goodbye to their homeland seem to complain about the “very difficult” conditions, in which, according to such Pakistanis, “it has become extremely difficult to survive.”
Such Pakistanis are heard constantly mentioning inflation, unemployment, bribery, nepotism, social injustice and many other problems.
Such extremely dissatisfied Pakistanis say that what has Pakistan given us? The point is that Pakistan will give back to its people what it gets from them. Pakistan belongs to Pakistanis. No country is just an empty piece of land.
It is formed by its people and the thinking and behavior of the people become the identity of this country and society.
What most Pakistanis do not admit in their own personal capacity is that if bribery is a big problem in Pakistan, it is because Pakistanis as a whole take and give bribes. If bribes are taken and given in sectors ranging from government offices to the police, it is because the average Pakistani thinks that bribery should be eliminated from the country, but just because one citizen does not take or give bribes, the whole system will not be fixed.
Therefore, it is better to save yourself from making hundreds of rounds of government offices or police stations and to “put your case or file on wheels.”
This is the big difference that causes the most decisive difference between collectively honest and corrupt societies. In one type of society, people say that they are not responsible for correcting the entire system and are only responsible for their own actions before their conscience.
The collective justice of such societies arises from the individual justice of their citizens.
On the other hand, there are societies in which most people, instead of looking into their own pockets, try to look into the pockets of others and keep distributing certificates of good or bad character to them along the way. Individually, most of the inhabitants of any such society think that the overall system is bad enough, it should be fixed, but what difference will the behavior of just one individual make?
People with such thinking forget that the flood that carries away a lot with it does not fall from the sky as a flood and fall on the ground, but is formed by small drops of rain.
If these drops are one or two, the dry land absorbs them and eliminates them. If these drops are countless and become one, they become a flood.
Now that the first sun of the year 2025 is about to rise, Pakistanis should perhaps also think for a moment that regardless of what they want from Pakistan, what does Pakistan itself want from them? Today's Pakistan is also a country that is alive and beating like a heart every moment.
If today's Pakistan wanted to address all Pakistanis with one voice and say something, it would probably be this request: "You are from me. I am from you." Can you eliminate the contradiction between your words and actions for my and your good future?”
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