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DAWN
15th Mar, 2023
EDITORIALS
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Aurangzeb who said there were no

set plans. But the PML-N continues
No sign of returning to look towards the senior Sharif to
bring the party back to life in
Editorial Published March 15, 2023 Punjab, where the PTI’s popularity
has been a reality check even for
WHEN it comes to the much- those in denial about public support
anticipated ‫ بہت زیادہ متوقع‬but for their rival. Mr Sharif’s return
delayed homecoming of PML-N and participation in the electoral
supremo Nawaz Sharif, the campaign, his party believes, is the
conversations ‫ بات چیت‬being had by only chance the PML-N stands to
members of the party are win back its lost popularity, given
reminiscent of scenes from Samuel the poor economic performance of
Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, in the PDM government. Hence, the
which the protagonists ‫مرکزی کردار‬ reason for the delay, especially in
spend all their time waiting for the run-up to the elections and in
someone who does not show up. Mr view of PML-N’s abysmal
Sharif’s return to Pakistan, say performance, ‫غیر معمولی کارکردگی‬
PML-N politicians, will address the remains a mystery ‫اسرار‬. It seems as
party’s leadership crisis and help it if Mr Sharif, a three-time prime
recover its lost political capital. Yet, minister, is waiting for relief from
the reality is that Mr Sharif remains the courts, and to some extent a
in London from where he controls course correction of sorts on the
his party back home. issue of his lifelong disqualification
from politics. What the
This week, Saad Rafique became ‘mechanisms’ for such actions are,
the latest party representative to no one knows. But it is becoming
[say Mr Sharif will return][1], a increasingly clear that he will not
claim that was dismissed by return until he is given some
Information Minister Marriyum guarantee about his freedom. It is a
pity that a politician of Mr Sharif’s
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stature, ‫ قد کاٹھ‬who has faced jail and having trouble enforcing these
persecution in the past, chooses to measures despite a dedicated
live in self-exile even while his monitoring committee tasked with
party is in government. It is time he overseeing the implementation of
summoned the courage to face the the prime minister’s austerity plan.
reality.
According to a news report in
Published in Dawn, March 15 , th
yesterday’s pages, 16 of the 30
2023 luxury vehicles given to cabinet
members, parliamentary
secretaries, and chairmen of
Another failure standing committees have yet to be
returned to the government’s
Editorial Published March 15, 2023 central pool despite the passage of
three weeks since the
THE average Pakistani may not be announcement of the ‘immediate’
able to put three meals on the table measures. It seems that despite the
for their family, but that has not everyday misery ‫ مصیبت‬that has
been enough to compel ‫مجبور کرنا‬ been imposed on ordinary folk, ‫عام‬
the country’s political leadership to ‫ لوگ‬we remain a country of plenty
forego ‫ ترک کرنا‬the luxuries they for those in power. According to the
enjoy at the expense of the public same report, many senior
exchequer. ‫ خزانہ‬Several ‘austerity bureaucrats have also continued
measures ‫ ’کفایت شعاری کے اقدامات‬had using their government-provided
been announced with great fanfare sports utility vehicles and luxury
‫ دھوم دھام‬last month in what was sedans. Similarly, there has been no
touted as a bid to slash ‫ختم کرنا‬ indication from either the judiciary
ministries’ and departments’ or the armed forces with regard to
spending by Rs200bn annually. cutting needless expenditures at a
Yet, the government seems to be time when the country has virtually
‫ عملی طور پر‬defaulted. More
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shocking is the revelation that the this dog and pony show go on an
Petroleum Division has even (elaborate display or presentation,
organised a junket (a journey or especially as part of a promotional
visit made for pleasure by an campaign)? Crisis reveals
official that is paid for by someone character, as they say; in our case, it
else or with public money) for has completely exposed the elite’s
officials from public-sector oil and abject disinterest in the welfare of
gas companies to fly in from as far the masses as long as their personal
as Karachi and Quetta to the Takht- interests are secure. No amount of
i-Babri in Kallar Kahar. blaming past leaders can absolve
the present dispensation ‫ تقسیم‬of
We have recently started hearing failing to take action on matters
from our nation’s top decision- within its control. If the government
makers that the global lending cannot enforce its writ even within
agency we have turned to for a its own house, how does it expect to
bailout does not really have our steer ‫ نکالنے‬an entire nation of more
public’s best interests at heart. The than 200m souls out of the dire
question is, do they? Pakistan burns straits it finds itself in?
as our Neros fiddle. The PDM
leadership has appeared more Published in Dawn, March 15th,
ineffectual ‫ غیر موثر‬and desperately 2023
inept at handling the country’s poly-
crisis with every passing day. The Census issues
prime minister has managed to
relegate himself to the margins of Editorial Published March 15, 2023
the news cycle after starting to
sound like a broken record. It is AS the seventh population census
embarrassing that he keeps continues, several issues have
regurgitating the same promises cropped up (to happen or appear
every few months or so, each time unexpectedly) hindering the head
with fewer results. How long must
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count. Foremost seems to be

security for police officers deployed All of these concerns need to be
‫ تعینات کئے گئے‬to guard the addressed urgently ‫ فوری طور پر‬by
enumerators. Two policemen the federal government, or else
assigned census duties were controversy ‫ تنازعہ‬will mar this
martyred ‫ شہید ہو گئے‬in separate census too. It should be recalled that
attacks in KP on Monday. One billions of rupees have been set
incident occurred in the Tank area, aside for the census in times of great
while the other in Lakki Marwat; financial strain, while tens of
both areas have witnessed TTP thousands of enumerators and
activity in the past, and the attacks security personnel have fanned out
are reminiscent ‫ یاد تازہ کر دیتے ہیں‬of across the country to complete this
deadly terrorist ambushes ‫دہشت‬ critical exercise. These funds and
‫ گردوں کے حملے‬targeting polio man hours should not be wasted due
teams. Apart from security to glitches ‫ خرابیاں‬and faulty
concerns, there are trust issues, management. The top priority of the
particularly in urban areas, as state should be to provide a safe
reports have emerged of people environment both to the
refusing to cooperate with census enumerators and security personnel
teams. Moreover, enumerators ‫شمار‬ to allow them to carry out their tasks
‫ کنندگان‬in several areas, particularly successfully. Special emphasis ‫زور‬
in Sindh, have complained of not must be placed on areas known to
receiving funds for fuel and daily be affected by militant activity, and
allowances. The Sindh chief extra layers of security, as well as
minister has also said his intelligence-based operations, are
administration may boycott the required to clear these spots for the
head count if their myriad concerns teams. Secondly, the state should
‫ بے شمار خدشات‬are not addressed. lead public awareness drives
The count in several parts of through the media to urge ‫زور دینا‬
Balochistan has also not started due people to work with the teams.
to ‘technical issues’. There exists a considerable trust
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deficit between the state and the

people, and it is the government’s
job to convince citizens that their
data will be kept safe, and be used
for the benefit of the country.
Moreover, glitches with equipment
and software, as well as bottlenecks
‫ رکاوٹیں‬related to the release of funds
to teams, need to be looked into,
while the PML-N should address
the concerns of its PPP coalition
partner ‫ اتحادی پارٹنر‬in Sindh over
census transparency. ‫شفافیت‬
Published in Dawn, March 15th,

2023
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Aurangzeb who said there were no

count. Foremost seems to be

deficit between the state and the

Published in Dawn, March 15th,

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