National Cleanliness Ordinance

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To forgive is divine and the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) is only an attempt to forgive. Those who are criticising this law are not patriots. In fact, the masses have no mind and that is why they do not seem to understand the implications of this commandment. Seventy percent people in this poor country are illiterate, so how can they evaluate and appreciate this wonderful move in the direction of good governance. This is one of the established principles of management that when you are unable to halt an illegal process, the best option to resolve the issue is to legalise it. If we are friends of the country we live in, we must acknowledge that the honourable president has lowered the crime rate in Pakistan in only one day by signing the NRO.

Has the nation not always complained that their MNAs, MPAs, senators and ministers are law-breakers and kitty collectors? However, the intelligentsia has always rightfully advocated that winning money out of contracts, non-repayment of loans, purchase and use of arms, culture of huge imported vehicles are not crimes, as all these involve economic activity. The big players take hold of money to set up factories and businesses, which in turn expand the revenue reserves of the country. And when these factories ultimately become inefficient, they are confiscated, sold or privatised only to inflate the national exchequer. The amount generated and circulated in this manner is so huge that all the taxpayers of this state and all the simple salaried community of this fatherland would fail to collect an equal sum. Eighty-five percent of people in this poor country have a per capita income of just $ 400 and they clearly lack the capacity to contribute in any country’s booming financial sector. Here lies the answer to why only politicians should be encouraged to collect huge amounts and why they should not be questioned for the same.

We must understand and accept the ground reality that a fruit vendor cannot bring financial reform in this country. A newspaper seller can only distribute newspapers, but his contribution in creating awareness on relevant issues is zero. A farmer is born only to till the land and he has no time to develop market strategies. A teacher’s mind is preoccupied in tuition work and it is beyond imagination to expect that he would help in bringing a revolution. A taxi driver has only polluted this country with his smoke-emitting vehicle. Religious clerics here spend most of their time in offering prayers and they do not believe in practical economic activity in this mortal world. Do you think a waste collector and a dust cleaner will change the fate of this nation? Never!

We must realise that we are still living in Plato’s Republic where the right to govern, suggest, and deliver rests with the aristocrats. These valued statesmen, ministers and leaders spend their life in efforts to run the country on behalf of all those useless educators, cultivators, hawkers, maulvis and bone collectors. Do they not deserve at least an amnesty for petty financial gains in exchange for their lifelong services to the nation?

Worthy nations always remember their heroes…But, do we have any heroes….other than Heer Ranjha, Sohni Mahinwal and Sassi Punnon? If we have some, can we name them or count them on our fingers….one…two…three….Nobody? The truth of the matter is that there are scores of heroes around us and some of them have gained the status of living legends. But we have not registered them as heroes in our system due to a faulty thought process. Those who take our stock exchange to new heights are our heroes, so what if they occasionally crash it to make the sector vibrant. Those who introduce the ever new policies in the power corridors to get rid of poverty and hunger are our real heroes, so what if their schematisation does not give results. Those who build bridges and roads in their constituencies are our heroes, so what if the bridges collapse and roads efface within two months of their inauguration. Those who say that they love Pakistan are our heroes, so what if they say it only when they are in government. Those who sit high are our heroes, so what if they speak so low. Mr President! We are proud of you, as you have given us an opportunity to identify our heroes by promulgating the NRO.

Having achieved this benchmark, we must now set new targets for national cleanliness. It is now confirmed that it is always the small fish, and not the big fish, that spoils the pond. Mr President will hit the nail on the head if a ‘National Cleanliness Ordinance’ is promulgated and all these ordinary, uninformed, ignorant and untaught people who have paid their taxes fully, all those journalists who depicted a hopeless picture of economic and social reforms, all those growers who fully returned their agricultural loans, all those shopkeepers who continuously filed returns every month, all those bureaucrats who did not solicit bribes and all those factory owners who did not raise prices by hoarding consumer items from 1986 onwards must be immediately hanged to death.

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