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Atta Atta Atta

By Ghazala Khan • Jan 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics • (278 views) • 3 Comments

When the stomach is empty, humans cannot even think straight. Hunger is unbearable for anyone anywhere. When people of Pakistan see their children crying due to shortage of food, they just go out of their minds and start looting and plundering and torching the offices of government, which cannot provide them basic necessities of life, rather they are the symbol of arrogance, apathy and corruption.

The forgotten puppet of General ® Pervez Musharraf, former Prime Minister, and Shaukat Aziz was once very proud of his damned “Bumper Crop” of wheat. With whopping 22.5 million tons, he made us certain that now for at least 2007-08; “atta” will be available like dust. It proved to be a gold dust in the end, and now people of Pakistan are frantically roaming the streets and pleading the shopkeepers for the flour.

The spineless flour mills owners, hoarders and profiteers are once cashing in on the misery of the people, and selling the flour above Rs. 30 per kg. What happened to that record bumper crop? Either it was yet another state lie, or it was exaggerated just to boost the image of regime, or the estimate was wrong from our learned bureaucrats, or something fishy happened along the way.

I don’t demand the formation of any commission or inquiry committee which could look into this matter and resolve the mysterious scam of the bumper crop and the following flour crisis, because nothing has been proved in fatherland and nothing is going to prove in the near future. Due to the lesser rains this year, and increasing populations, price hike in the fertilizers, and the mounting corruption and this new trend of mass hoarding, 2008 look bleaker than the last year.

In a nutshell, the government is not able to meet its social commitments or economic promises.

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3 Responses to “Atta Atta Atta”

  1. 1
    Faisalk Says:
    January 6th, 2008

    It was about 3 to 4 months ago that every tom dick and harry in the trading world of Pakistan was exporting the Atta you speak of in many thousands of tons to people abroad. I know for a fact that the traders did this on very low profits as they kept saying suppliers were huge, we have a bumper crop. My point is exactly who authorized those tenders? who gave permission for export of this commodity??

  2. 2
    Farid Masood Says:
    January 7th, 2008

    We Blame Mr Zardari as Mr 10% now count Zardaris in Pakistan may be countless

  3. 3
    danyhasan Says:
    January 8th, 2008

    We dont have aata, electricity, gas, water which are our basic necessities.NS, BB were corrupt undemocratic etc. but did we ever complain of everything being unavailable?We complained about inflation but did we complain about shortage?People supporting our retired general talk about the unprecedented economic growth.I have one simple question for them? Why do we have to import wheat, sugar etc when our economy has grown so much and we have an agro based economy.

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