The past is not retrievable but provides good feedback for the future if one is willing to learn from mistakes. However, our politicians tend to do exactly the opposite. They never seem to learn from their past mistakes but instead of looking forward always try to dig into the past to fix blame on others.
Our leaders should act upon the advice of Confucius who said that leaders should fear abandoning their actions that yielded no results. On the contrary, our leaders keep doing the same while expecting different results. They are so hardened in their ways that they don’t realize the faults in their actions. Our economy has been on the decline for decades but every government that takes power blames its predecessors for ruining it.
Ironically, while each government puts all the blame on past governments, they never change the course and keep committing the same mistake. I wonder how do they expect different results if they keep doing what their predecessors were doing? The selfish and myopic policies of our politicians have gradually brought us to a point where life for the middle and lower class has become impossible. High inflation, low employment, and non-existent health, education, and security by the government have made life impossible for the common man. Instead of realizing the gravity of the situation, our politicians have gone so far long in their animosity for each other that they have turned the sacred house into a battleground where physical violence and worst severing is being witnessed by the nation.
One feels ashamed to see this behaviour of our politicians from all parties. If our political leadership does not realize the gravity of the situation and work together to bring the country on the path of economic strength, we will keep seeing the blame game while the country disappears into oblivion.
RAJA SHAFAATULLAH
Islamabad
