Every passing day adds to this government's humiliation. People's hatred keeps growing. Every day, the good news of a new storm of inflation is the lot of the public. Every day, this government succeeds in finding a new way to insult them. The helplessness of the people is a daily routine. Mourning over this government's cruelties is now their daily habit. It no longer matters how many more days this government lasts. Are the "one-page" forces still with it or not? Have the crutches been removed, or are they still carrying this government's corpse? People have become so distressed that they no longer have time for complaints. They want deliverance from this government, which is killing the poor. Whatever the price of that deliverance, whatever the penalty for escaping this anguished state. People's courage has given way. The public has been made to cry out. People have been driven to suicide. Law and order has been turned upside down, from the home to the market. Public hatred of this government has now reached its peak.
Every passing day reminds the public of Nawaz Sharif's time in government. It reminds them of the time when the government thought of the public's welfare. When the price of petrol did not feel like a torment. When electricity bills did not turn homes into houses of mourning. When metros were being built across the country. When the Orange Line was being laid. When development projects were being launched. When load-shedding was coming to an end. When scholarships and laptops were being given to students. When foreign countries looked at us with respect. When the dollar was below 100 rupees. New hospitals, new schools and colleges were being built. The public was being listened to. When we were not so deeply in debt and the world did not call us beggars openly. Our prime minister was received with honour. Dialogue was held on an equal footing. The success of foreign tours was not then merely a selfie. In that era, the prices of petrol, electricity and gas were not raised on a daily basis. People were hopeful of a better Pakistan and a better future.
With each passing day, the conspiracy is being exposed to the public: how an elected government was sent packing. How a vile judge, acting like a pharaoh, handed down rulings against elected representatives of the people. How a bought media and unscrupulous analysts lined up against Nawaz Sharif's government as part of a plot. How, sitting in drawing rooms, puffing on cigars and guffawing, they decided to trample this country's constitution underfoot. How, through the collusion of judge, general and journalist, a plan was drawn up to ruin this country. How hatred was nurtured in this society. How judges were shown nude videos to extract rulings from them. How the people's representatives were ridiculed. How the scales of justice were tilted towards themselves for their despicable ends. How this society was once again drenched in terrorism. How, in a calculated manner, the honour of this holy homeland was auctioned off in every country through a puppet government. How this whole society was pushed towards an unseen hatred.
With each passing day, the shame of those who brought this government in is growing. The shame of this government's allies keeps growing. The shame of those who shook hands with this government is growing. The shame of those who meet the household expenses of this government's prime minister is growing. This government's members of the assembly cannot raise their eyes for shame. No one is willing to accept a ticket from the governing party. No one is willing to inherit this failure. Apart from those who work in channels run under unseen pressure, no one can tolerate its incompetence. Go into the roads, streets, lanes, towns and cities of the whole country and ask: how satisfied are you with this government's performance? What has this government done for public welfare? Will you vote for this government again? The whole matter will become clear in a moment. There will be no need for any programme, any honourable minister or any analyst's profound analysis. The public will speak in their own tone, and people will tremble at the end this government faces.
With each passing day, people's hope grows that somehow they will be rid of this government. Whether it is a no-confidence motion or a decision from the Election Commission on foreign funding, whether the government's own members break ranks or its allies turn away, whether the assemblies are dissolved or there is some stirring in the Senate, whether the opposition holds a big rally, the PDM stages a protest or Maulana Fazlur Rehman holds a sit-in: whatever it may be, people only want to be rid, somehow, of this government's cruelty. Rid of the killers of the poor. Let deliverance come from these enemies of Pakistan and the Pakistani people. People are pinning great hopes on small events. They regard the coming together of the opposition's allied parties as a means of deliverance. People do not care how this government goes, or whether the method is democratic or undemocratic. People now simply want deliverance. They do not want to tolerate this government for a single moment longer. They know that if this government, which crushes the poor, remains imposed on them for a few more days, then the cries are already rising, and now funerals will begin to leave every home.
Every government against which public hatred grows so great, every government whose allies feel ashamed to stand by it, every government whose members of the assembly go about hiding their faces, every government whose installers express regret every day over what they did, every government that people curse at every hour with their hands raised in supplication: every such government eventually meets its painful end. Know this: the matter is not far off. All that is needed now is one last push against the crumbling walls of sand.
