Nation to suffer bad governance, unending crises if present rulers stay: Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri

PAT chief Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that corrupt and incompetent rulers who have ‘gifted’ the nation with petrol, electricity and gas crises are as lethal a scourge as terrorism. He said that unless they are got rid of, they will continue to fleece the nation and render it bankrupt. He asked, under what democratic morality are those seeking forgiveness over their incompetence and mismanagement clinging on to their positions? He said that had there been real democracy in the country and had there been any institution or law looking after the public interests, these rulers would have been behind bars instead of enjoying their stay in the corridors of power.

Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri expressed these views while talking to the members of central media office from Saudi Arabia yesterday. He said that it is the third time that power breakdown took place at such a vast level but there is no institution or law that could hold the rulers answerable for causing massive inconvenience to the people. He said that shortfall of 7000 megawatt in the months of December and January and increase in power tariff despite decreasing trend of prices of furnace oil is not only crass incompetence but also manifest enmity with the masses.

Dr Qadri said that the present rulers are continuation of the past rulers. He asked the nation to come out of this illusion that those creating crises one after the other will resolve them. He said that a time when the nation needed to fight terrorism jointly, it was made to face power, petrol and gas crises. He said that bad governance of the present rulers has not only brought the country’s economy to a grinding halt but is also throwing spanners in the work of ongoing war against terrorism.

The PAT chief said that one crisis is created every month in which the rulers and their cronies reap its dividends and increase their personal wealth while the common man is pushed to the brink of starvation. He said that Pakistani Diaspora community living in Saudi Arabia is as equally worried and disturbed over the prevailing state of affairs in Pakistan as in people living in any other country. He said that the rulers who are part of the problem should not be expected to be part of the solution and pinning any hopes on them on this count is futile.