Pakistan and New Year Resolution!

The end of 2011 is taking place in such a way that there is distress everywhere and one cannot say that the circumstances are to our content even in a single aspect of our current situation. Politically, utmost demand of our political parities is to conduct general elections as soon as possible without considering what the repercussions would be in such case. Though, it was declared by the P. M. that he was satisfied with his Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Perwaiz Kayani and DG ISI Gen. Shuja Pasha and that there were no contradiction of opinions between the Government and the Army but critics say that everything is not right. Then, one can also envisage the strain present between Government and the judiciary which could also be apprehended in the speech of Present Asif Ali Zardari in Larkana. The bad blood between Government and its opposing parties can also be perceived.
Pak-America relations also touched a news low after the Salala check post incident in which Boulder and Volcano check posts were turned into ruins. Pakistan has also refuted to accept NATO's incident investigation report. These circumstances not only have negative impact on "war against terror" but also on the economic and internal affairs of Pakistan. This can also be envisaged through the fact that there is heavy decrease in foreign investment into Pakistan and also there is greater in imbalance between imports and exports of Pakistan.
The international economic recession has also hampered Pakistan's economy to some extent which is also causing a great difficulty in fabrication of Pakistani Budget. There is severe shortage of gas and electricity in here. On the other hand, government is producing a regular inhumane hike in gas and oil tariff albeit the price of oil is decreasing in international market.
Now, Ministry of gas and petroleum has developed a gas emergency plan which has developed a glimpse of hope to correct current situation. National assembly committee for gas and petroleum convened a meeting on Thursday where federal minister for Dr. Asif gave a briefing on current situation of gas shortage. He opined that gas shortage is at peak and committee should give consent to close the CNG stations for one month. Members of the committee opposed this suggestion and said that such act would further develop frustration among the consumers and could produce unwanted result against already unpopular government. Though there was plenty more in the proceedings but one welcome news was that Government was thinking of providing gas to home consumers on preferable basis.
According to one news, the government has released a notification of checking the gas supply to Punjab and KP provinces' industries. This would produce disastrous results as this action will surely make millions of people unemployed. And such actions would take government nowhere.
Keeping all these things aside, actual problem is same, the gas and electricity consumption is more than the rate at which gas and electricity are produced. The need of the hour is that, government should take solid actions to increase the production of gas and electricity on emergency basis so that this most important problem could be eradicated.
fact is that if the past governments had fulfilled their responsibilities in this respect than current situation could be a lot more different. But government cannot absolve itself from its failures to cope with needs of Pakistani people.
Despite this imbroglio and arduous situation, we do not need to get frustrated and disappointed. Even if today, we pledge to face the problematic circumstances manfully and vow to control current problems then situation can be reverted and even our stumbling industry can be taken to peak of progress vis-a-vis those of China and America. We can do so by following footsteps of Turkey which was facing similar situation about a decade ago before the Erdogan's regime.
New year is begining, we have to promise ourselves that next year, we will do our best for the betterment of Pakistan and for its prosperity by bring all of our abilities into use.
Long Live Pakistan.