System derailed long ago

A protest strategy with a nervous and erratic opponent like Nawaz Sharif was always a recipe for disaster, for the protesters if not for anybody else. However it is highly perturbing to see a large section of society advocating the continuity of current tyranny citing existential threats to the system. Unfortunately it’s only a myth that system is still in place.

The basic responsibility of a government is to ensure safety and well-being of its subject regardless of their religious or political affiliation. The so-called system has completely failed to provide that. Every day there are tens of people dying in the biggest and most productive city of Pakistan but no one in the government cares about addressing it. Your ethnicity and religious affiliation is your crime, bad enough for you to be sentenced to death. Due to hoarding and extortion at all levels, food inflation is rampant but nobody in the system cares. Potable water is either unavailable or needs industrial scale treatment before it can be consumed, while the tanker mafia keeps expanding. If you are robbed, forget about the lost valuables rather just focus on rehabilitation from the trauma which is sometimes worsened due to sexual assaults on family but it doesn't ruffle any feathers in the system.

In smaller cities the fruits of this system are much more rotten than anywhere else. One is completely at the mercy of a feudal who can unleash dogs (human or canine) upon you or abduct your family and you cannot do anything about it except may be burning yourself alive. You are always under-qualified against those who have safarish. I recall being told by a technician in Riyadh that he got arrested on local chaudhry’s order who didn't want him to go abroad to earn living. An ordinary person can never get elected to the legislature as it might derail the system.

One can go on with this list forever but if what has already been listed doesn't raise serious questions about system’s existence then maybe we are part of the problem. This system was derailed long ago and now it’s time to realign it.