If our politicians create law and order as if it applies to them as well, they wont need to shut down cities while moving around.
What Danish ambassador did was a commendable thing. What
@Akheilos shared about Bosnian ambassador was equally a noble act. Its unfortunate we dont appreciate these gestures but instead try to find faults or angles to criticize.
I know for a fact govt officials here travel with common public. Where they buy, we buy from same stores. Where their kids go, our kids go to the same schools. No airports or highways are shut down because chief minister or prime minister is going.
This idea of protocol is a very fundamental symptom we are still living in slavery. When equality or the sense of it is missing in society it creates people like our politicians. There is this sense of entitlement in them which makes them immune to reproach.
Couple of years ago, there were election in Canada. While campaigning, Canada defence minister rang my door bell. By the time I reached to open the door, he began to walk to the next house. He saw me and came back and like a very ordinary man, began to explain his party's position. No protocol. He was on foot. No guards. Nothing. Can this happen in Pakistan?
Unless our leaders are exactly the same people we are, Pakistan will remain impoverished and under developed. Your rulers will give you Metrobus, laptop, motorway or black cab (yellow cab in 90s) but cant give you vision, a direction or an agenda to move Pakistan forward.
Enjoy your Rs 45 million toy. But think how that money could have been better used for education, hospitals and law and order. Those are not high visible projects so they are not invested in.
If this govt is adamant on building Metrobus and other thakeydaari projects, then Karachi needs the mass transit the most.
Today, incubators in Punjab hospitals are not functioning. Mice gnaw newborns to death. Some years ago patients died Punjab cardiology due to spurious drug provided by the govt. Just last year, Punjab police shot 17 people in Model Town. If Sharifs are such successful politicians, may we ask why such pathetic state of affairs in their sixth govt in Punjab?