Here is the simple problem with that.. and Ill use this very incident to demonstrate. The Rangers killed a man arguing with his wife, Normally.. that is not a problem. However, the law and order situation is soo bad that the rangers were paranoid enough to decide to shoot rather than risk going closer to the guy.
What does that tell you? People on the street are ready to lynch each other given the opportunity. Here in khi.. I HATE THE GUY in the car next to me.. I hate him before knowing him.. because I automatically assume that he is going to try and shove me into a corner and end up hitting me. He is in a hurry.. so am I. I see a guy on a motorbike.. I automatically make plans to run away if needed.. or run him over if required.. first.. because he may be a thief.. .the second is because if he scratches my car from his careless maneuvering.. I want his skin... a pound of flesh if anything. Why do I care for his pound of flesh? because I am sick of some fellow delaying my payment for goods on Inshallahs and Mashallahs.. so why should I tolerate a Motorbike guy in a hurry and being careless? I could be more patient with the Inshallah Mashallah guy.. except I need to pay other people.. and they too have their problems. They need to buy groceries with the money I give, pay school fees.. and they are tense about it. Sure, everybody in the world is tense to a certain level.. but when those guys get back from work.. after being stopped by Policemen over no context and based on no profiling.. they have to dish out a 100 or 200 bucks to get away from them. When those guys get home, they find the wife complaining of late food.. because there was no gas.. and no electricity... and when they get sick of that..they decide to watch some tele.. what they see is ten dead.. strike tomorrow.. petrol prices up.. and the same policemen that stopped them. Those policemen, they need the money.. because 20000 does not cut it for their stations SHO.. who has to make money this way so he can pay for fuel and basic upkeep of his vehicles which were abandoned by the government once they were bought..and any maintenance money gets eaten up in the higher order. So he takes the bribes... keeps some for himself.. some for the DSPs...and others.. some he distributes lower.. and then the others he outlines for getting diesel for the only two workable vans out of his motor pool of eight.
He doesnt like what he does, but he does it.... he envies the Army guys.. going by more secure in terms of their earnings in his eyes.. at least their vehicles get maintained. But he has to keep paying the same cops collecting bribes... Cops that I have to worry about.. whenever my brother returns from his tuition alone so that they dont bother him.. while I also worry about motorcycle thieves and speeding government officials with illegal escorts.. and speeding feudal.. and I despise all of them.. I wish them death this instant. So everytime I catch a breath.. I only hate this place.. I only hate the people who live in it.
And I dont want a bit of it.. not for me.. not for my family... If I have the opportunity to go to a better place.. Ill take it.
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