Not too ago, it was 2013, when Nawaz Sharif came to power, the country was not facing any recent major economic crisis, but three major crises had ruined the lives of the people. The biggest crisis was the peace crisis. No notable city of Pakistan was safe from the reach of terrorists. When people went to the market for shopping, there would be an attack. Children were to be attacked when they went to school to study. When families went to the parks for fun on a holiday, there would be suicide attacks. All these were the attacks that were happening directly to the common citizens of Pakistan.
But at the same time, three more activities were going on by the terrorists. The most important of which is that they were constantly targeting defense installations. Attacks on offices of sensitive institutions, GHQ, and Mehran base are particularly significant. The third activity was that target killing was also in full swing. Army and police officers who were fighting terrorism were being particularly targeted. The fourth activity was kidnapping for ransom. We have mentioned all these activities of this terrorist group whose headquarters was in Waziristan. But this was not the total universe of terrorism.
A group was also involved in communal terrorism for three decades. And in terms of experience, it was ahead of the Waziristan terrorists. But the group’s goals were specific. The entire strategy revolved around a specific target. The third group of terrorists was the loyalists of Bhai Altaf whose motto was “Whoever is a traitor to the leader deserves death” This group was limited only to the geography of Karachi, but it is worth noting that two million people were among them. were unprotected by Extortion and target killing were his trademark act.
The biggest injustice that this group of terrorists has done to Karachi is that for a period of time it targeted only those personalities who were the brains of Karachi. Outstanding performers in the fields of knowledge, literature, poetry and arts. None of them had anything to do with politics. But obviously, their existence was the consciousness that threatened the dawn of this city. They were neither killed for disobedience, nor killed for money, nor punished for any disobedience. He was killed simply for the crime that he had a high level of consciousness and never once in his life did he hear the words “Karachi belongs to Altaf Bhai and Altaf Bhai belongs to us” if you are Altaf Bhai’s. If you are not saying a single sentence in support, then you cannot be Altaf Bhai. In such a case, how can you be given the right to live with a large stature?
This universe of terrorism is still unfinished. The fourth circle was that of the terrorists known as the Lyari Gang War. It is evident from the name itself that they had control over that part of Karachi from where the city of Karachi was born one day. Lyari area is within walking distance from the beach. Altaf Bhai had introduced the element of brutality in terrorism years ago with his drill machine. The Lyari gang war took this brutality to new lows. Those lows which even this pen does not have the courage to mention. America has been a stronghold of many mafias. Some of them had strictly applied the rule that if someone had to be killed, they should be shot dead.
It was only one crisis faced by Pakistan at the beginning of Nawaz Sharif’s third term. Now let’s come to the second crisis. This crisis was an energy crisis. A native Socrates sitting in Islamabad had in the past presented the concept that gas is very cheap in Pakistan, if it is converted into CNG and used in vehicles, then Pakistan will have to import less petrol, which will save foreign exchange. There will be savings, while the citizens will also get access to very cheap alternative fuel which will bring happiness in their lives. CNG stations spread across the country. But after Desi Socrates, Desi Aristotle also came. They gave the idea that when gas is being used as fuel for vehicles, then why is it so cheap?
Thus, Desi Aristotle was also listened to, leaving little difference in the prices of petrol and CNG. But the ideas of Desi Socrates and Aristotle created a crisis that the gas that fell in his land, which was once very much appreciated by Desi Socrates, came close to being exhausted in just fifteen years. Thus, for the first time in the history of Pakistan, there is no gas even for cooking in homes. A strategy was adopted for the use of the surplus stock to pump CNG three days a week and to provide gas to houses only during cooking so that geysers and heaters could not consume gas.
The third major crisis inherited by Nawaz Sharif was the power crisis. What happens all over the world is that according to the rate of population growth, their permanent needs are estimated in advance for the coming years. So they know which needs when will become insufficient according to the current quantity. Thus, by the time that year comes, the lack of this requirement is met in advance so that crisis does not arise. For example, increasing the number of customized power plants or increasing the production of existing plants, etc. But where did Musharraf, who lived in Pakistan for nine years, have time for these works, he had to face the challenge of classical music from Ustad Hamid Ali Khan and he also had to surpass Sheema Kirmani in dance. So in 2013, the country was facing eighteen hours of loadshedding.
Nawaz Sharif brought Pakistan out of these three crises in just three and a half years. The most important man in this chapter was Ishaq Dar, the finance minister of that period. If you consider terrorism, CNG and electricity loadshedding even one of the three crises will inevitably have an impact on the economy. Ishaq Dar knew very well that the economic development of the country is not possible without addressing these three crises. Thus, he was the most powerful, most active, and most effective minister of the Nawaz era in the sense that getting rid of these three crises was his first priority, otherwise, the dream of economic development would have remained a dream.
So not only Nawaz Sharif was targeted, but Ishaq Dar was also targeted. Remember General Bajwa’s seditious phrase that “If the country’s economy is not bad, it is not good either” when artillerymen become economists, then the economy will be the same as the house of a medical doctor who builds a house. The house will have fewer walls, more doors, windows and skylights. Because medicine says that light and fresh air are the guarantees of health. But when the entire load of the structure is carried by the doors, windows and light bulbs, one day no one will be left alive to get light and fresh air in this house. So General Bajwa’s economic skills are providing him with a flood of innovations from every house today. A clown named Miftah Ismail was brought in to get the country out of this situation, so he came up with an easy solution to use the Sultana Bandit Doctrine. Sultana robber used to steal from the rich and give to the poor. Miftah Ismail is taking from Pakistani citizens is giving it to the IMF. Thus, Miftah’s policy in simple words is to rob the homes of 22 crore citizens of the country. Miftah’s sinister policies are nothing but robbery.
In these situations, two people were the most worried. Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar, who has proved in their third term of government, how to get the country out of the crisis without burdening the people. Ishaq Dar is repeatedly saying that oppression is being done by shifting the entire burden on the people. This is not a solution to the problem but a policy that creates new problems. God bless Imran Khan for making the army and its chief the target of the worst criticism to such an extent that the disobedience of Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar to the GHQ began to look trivial. It is being heard that Ishaq Dar is returning soon and is going to take charge of the Finance Ministry. Does anyone remember Imran Khan’s statement that Ishaq Dar had artificially kept the value of the dollar low in the first month of power? And all the youths were found raving about it even though it was the result of this policy that inflation was controlled and the common man was at peace. Coming back, Ishaq Dar had announced in advance that he would rein in the dollar first. It is as if what was called a disease four years ago has now been recognized as a cure four years later. Since this has become possible because Imran Khan has continuously called General Bajwa an animal, Mir Jafar, a traitor, and a jackal in five months of tireless speeches, from which Nawaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar have now become the only hope. So we all should say “Thank you Imran Khan.”
