I am a retired Associate Professor of Archaeology of the University of Peshawar. I am neither a socialist nor a communist. I like capitalist form of government which quickly develops a country economically and industrially. A capitalist who owns a factory or industry establishes new ventures after earning money in them. They create new jobs for the people and reduce unemployment in the country to some extent.
Nawaz Sharif after becoming the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the past had announced that the government's job is not to fly planes, run hotels build and maintain rest house.
Getting a seat in the PIA from Peshawar to Karachi was the most difficult job. The traveler was to wait for days and weeks. Nawaz Sharif realized the inconvenience of the travelers and allowed to establish private airlines in the country. Thus traveling from Peshawar to Karachi become easy. There was a fair competition among the airline companies and the passengers enjoyed the benefits. Some companies which improved their domestic service started international flight also to different countries. This reduced the fare which the passengers enjoyed.
I went to the United stated in 1971 and landed at the Kennedy International Airport. I counted more then 50 counters of the private airline companies when I was checking out of the airport. They were flying their planes in the country from one city to other. I boarded a plane of the Eastern Airlines to Boston/Washington. It was a few minutes flight but I was well looked after by the cabin crew and served with coffee and given a card to fill it whether I was satisfied or not with the service of the airline and cabin crew. I wrote excellent service. There is always a competition among them and every airline tries to provide good service to the passengers. Those which fail, they die their own death and wind up their business. This is the gift of capitalist system of the government in which there is everything in the private sector which tries to improve its performance continuously, for the satisfaction and benefit of the people.
Now I came to know that the F16 planes and military equipments are also manufactured by the private companies which they sell to the governments. I met the private secretary of a company who was an elderly woman who had come with the other American tourists to Pakistan. She told me that her company manufactures all military equipments. She pointed her finger to Pakistani Mac army truck and said "we make this also".
I come back to my main topic of Nawaz Sharif after this long introduction. He had announced that he would give us a bullet train if elected to rule the country in future which will run from Karachi to Peshawar and vice versa. I was over joyed and murmured "Nawaz Sharif Zindabad." I had been to Japan many times to give lectures on the Buddhist civilization of Gandhara of which I was invited I had traveled in these bullet trains many times in it from one city to other. People prefer to travel in them instead of planes to save the time of going to the airport which are built away from the cities. One can catch the bullet trains within the city railway stations easily. I still remember some of the names of those trains. They are Hikari, Kodama and Shinkansin. Nawaz had announced the construction of the motorway from Lahore to Peshawar when he was in power in the past. There was a hue among his political opponents when he started the work. I still remember their words "Ayyashi" (luxury) of Nawaz Sharif. He did not care for it and completed the project. Thanks to his motorway that takes us to Lahore from Peshawar in six hours in the Daewoo Bus Service comfortably. There are other private luxury coaches which leave for Lahore from Peshawar often every hour from the lorry addas.
I still remember that the people used to go in trains to Lahore in the past. There were no good roads except the GT Road on which the small private buses used to run which took hours and hours to reach Lahore. The journey was tiresome because the GT Road was not maintained well. The well kept roads bring revolution in the country and give prosperity to it in the field of trade and commerce and unite the people living in the far flung areas.
Nawaz Sharif has realized this because he is an industrialist and mill owner who wants to develop the country sincerely and quickly. He should start the work on the bullet train immediately without caring for the opposition. It is in the national interest and in greater interest of the four million Pakhtuns living in Karachi who come here with their families to celebrate Eid and to attend the marriages and funerals of their relatives with great hardships.
Nawaz Sharif's bullet train
ok, lets see the bullet trains of nawaz and the electricity for bullet trains
