BLACKOUT

January has cold weather. Between Saturday and Sunday night, half of Pakistan was asleep, some were getting ready for sleep. In some big cities, people were waking up because of the weekend. Suddenly the whole country was plunged into darkness. Waking up, they got upset and started waking up the sleeping ones.

In the darkness of the night, various rumors began to spread. After this horrible night full of rumors, a press conference was held on Sunday and the nation was informed that last night the power transmission lines were attacked in the Naseerabad area of ​​Balochistan. As a result, the power transmission system across the country was affected and power was broken.

This incident is not of 2021 but of 2015 also. In January 2015 there was a power breakdown just like in January 2021. The only difference is that six years ago there was a power breakdown in the last week of January and in 2021 it was in the second week of January.

In both cases, government officials held a press conference on Sunday.

Six years ago, Federal Secretary for Water and Power Younis Dhaga said in a press conference that the reason for the blackout was a terrorist attack in Naseerabad. More than 10,000 megawatts of electricity suddenly went missing in Tarbela and Mangla due to the breakdown.

In 2015, the first statement of the government officials was that there was a malfunction in Guddu.

Omar Ayub Khan stated what he was told but the question arises as to whether the reasons he gave for the breakdown are easy for the educated citizens of a state which is a state that is nuclear power.

The year 2021 has not only begun with a breakdown in our power transmission system. Earlier this year, a breakdown in the relationship of trust between the state and the people has also been exposed. On January 3, 11 coal miners in the Machh area of ​​Balochistan were handcuffed and slaughtered.

The families of these poor people demanded that Prime Minister Imran Khan himself come to Quetta and give them a written assurance of the arrest of the killers and they will not bury the bodies of their loved ones until the Prime Minister comes. The Prime Minister sent the Chief Minister and some federal ministers and assured that the oppressed of the Hazara community would get justice but matters could not be settled between the Hazara community and the government.

The Prime Minister insisted that he would go to Quetta only after the bodies were buried. Protests began in several cities across the country, including Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, in support of the families of those killed in the massacre.

On January 8, the Prime Minister said, “I will not get Blackmail. I will come to Quetta on the day you bury the bodies.” After a six-day protest sit-in, the Hazara community buried the bodies of their loved ones on January 9, and the same day the Prime Minister went to Quetta to offer condolences to their families.

The Prime Minister won and the oppressed heirs of the slain lost, but with the eleven corpses, the bond of respect and trust that binds the state and the people together is buried somewhere.

The reality of this relationship is not what Prime Minister Imran Khan said to the heirs of those killed in Quetta. The real reality of this relationship is the slogans raised at the funerals of the victims. These slogans were not heard on TV channels but were heard on social media and patriotic elements called those who chanted slogans, traitors.

Funeral cases should be enthusiastically filed against these thousands of “traitors” but one would bother to explain why there has been a breakdown of patriotism in this country. Why is the turnout of traitors increasing day by day?

Once upon a time, the state was given the status of the mother, but today the mother has been taken away from her children. Because of this breakdown, there is a separate law for the strong and a separate law for the weak. Due to this breakdown, politics, ethics and journalism are being deprived of truth.

The moral values ​​of society are being blacked out. Darkness is spreading everywhere and anyone who identifies these darknesses and demands to explain the real reasons for the breakdown is considered an enemy of the state.

There are patriots who occupy the lands of the poor, commit fraud in the name of housing schemes, do business by building hospitals and universities, and spread hatred in the name of religion. But there are still some glimmers of hope in this breakdown and blackout.

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