Date: Thu May 17, 2007 4:51 pm
Subject: Security of Sindhis
Mushtaq Mirani wrote:
Dear All
Tragic events generate fundamental questions to reshape the nation. The Karachi carnage of 12 May hammers our minds to ask the following questions:
How long Sindhis can live on borrowed time in Karachi?
How Sindh can develop economically and socially when its capital is hostage to alien people?
How Sindhis can claim ownership of Sindh in the global community when its demographic stability is threatened by a large scale migration to Sindh?
How democracy, good governance and rural of law can be established in Sindh when fascists control the Sindh assembly and the Sindh government?
The debate on these questions will produce answers to obtain permanent security of Sindhis in Karachi and re-engineering of Sindh to make it secure, democratic and prosperous nation.
Emotional, incompetent and personalized politics of Sindhis has brought Sindh to this stage where today we are living like Polish people under Nazi occupation.
I hope that Sindhi thinkers, politicians and civil society activists will start a serious debate on the issues I have raised.
Regards,
Mushtaq Mirani
Rafi Chandio wrote:
Dear all
Mirani sahib has invited an important discussion about the security of Sindh? I would like to express my concern about the recent show down in Karachi. Regarding questions asked by Mirani sahib I have fundamental problem with this approach. We have always seen problems from an illusionary perspective, for instance the question of ownership of Karachi? What do we mean by this ownership ?
Who is owner of Mombay, London, New York and other mega cities, if Sindhi's are not the masters of Karachi no body else can claim the sole ownership of Karachi lets us go further deep in this issue.
Concept of ownership is not related to cities and specially mega cities of to days global age, rather it is an issue of disadvantaged groups and their participation in the these cities.
Nationalistic sentiments are not serving the purpose of social development of Sindh, indeed it failed to materialize any socio-political solution to the commons of Sindh.
W.W Rostow in his "stages of growth" mentioned that for the fourth and most important stage of growth which he termed as take-off stage, it must be supported by mature socio- political conditions, emergence of a political party is a must to facilitate growth and development.
Lack of a mature political party is not only problem of Sindh but it is same with all over Pakistan including Karachities.
Parties like MQM,Muslim league (many groups) are not true representatives while PPP is facing institutional crisis. lack of political set up is the primary cause of underdevelopment, it becomes more serious with rural areas where representation is sought on weaker negotiation terms. These weaker negotiations are outcome of parallel power structure which is equally present in rural as well as in urban cent res of country. This collective bargaining capacity of commons has an explicit opportunity cost of provision of social goods.Which simply means that poor is forced to buy these social goods from market.
Intensity of such problem is more severe in rural areas because rural inhabitants income is not matching the purchasing power of urban commons.
The nationalists do blame masses "because they did'nt vote them in power so they are the culprits". a common complain by the nationalist organizations of Sindh.
These parties have been influenced heavily by socialist ideas, They don't accept any concession less than complete revolution, now there is the trade off between nationalist political parties and public needs. there voice has never ever represented their needs rather they have always been raising voices for their internationalist theoretical affiliations.
People are more interested to have public goods like health , education, human rights and other factor which may help them to enhance their capacity to get rid of poverty but nationalist parties try to make them apart from the rest of country by scaring them. reason why PPP won the elections on and on was that they have at least raised the slogan of their and addressed their concerns. we must come up with better ideas for Sindh a political party with a genuine ideas and sectoral development approach will only deliver to the Sindh. In fact the real issue is to fill up the development gaps between Pakistan nationalist parties must develop pressure on both governments to invest and adapt more friendly policies in rural areas of country with a clear goal to transform the agrarian society of Sindh but our political parties must know what they are up to .
In order to generate health polemics criticism is more than welcome. Thanks and kind regards
Rafi Chandio
I see a movies couple of years back and still remember the following scene
�One schoolboy was curious for every thing in the class, the entire staff and teachers were annoyed of his every minute questions. He kept on talking and questioning many things differently.
When his inquisitiveness (as conceived by the school management) crossed the limits, he was isolated for time being. After some time he was again reinstated and was called by the principal of the school in his office and granted time to explain that: -
What was wrong with him?
Why he is so curious about every thing?
Why he saw every thing against the conventional norms?�
He gave a very simple reply: -
�People see the things as they are and ask why?
I see the things as they might be and asked why not�
Cheerz
Zulfi
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