Gilani and Sharif Holiday in Hunza
The above set of photos sicken me and let me tell you why?
The first photo shows the present non-practising pir and evidently the non-practising Prime Minister of Pakistan showing affection to a baby girl who now resides in a IDP camp owing to the government’s lacklustre response to the Hunza landslide. The Prime Minister is joined by an entourage of ministers who joined him to holiday in Hunza it seems given none of them acted let alone acted swiftly to save Hunza’s people from the impending doom that now awaits them in the coming days.
I wonder how many meetings the Prime Minister of Pakistan and his cabinet have had on the Hunza landslide situation and on what measures the government needed to implement to safeguard Hunza and its people. The answer to my question is obviously none, since no meetings were held about Hunza as no-one cared and cares about Hunza and that is why I am so livid with the government who have failed the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.
What makes it worse is that many measures could have been deployed by the government that could have saved both lives and the livelihoods of the people of Hunza. Take for example the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) who could have been deployed earlier to create the spillway and made to work faster by way of added resources so as to allow for the seepage of water faster thus saving villages from flooding. At the earlier stage, some local experts were of the opinion that the use of powerful water pumps to ejaculate the water at the blockade site could have reduced the likelihood of the Hunza waterbomb, a suggestion that was not even considered by those who rule in Pakistan’s power corridors.
It is clear that instead of tasking his government to act to save Hunza’s heaven from turning into a hell, Prime Minister Gilani sat idle and apathetic throughout and that is why I am so angry with him personally as well as his failed government. Prime Minister Gilani stooped even lower in my estimation when during his visit to Hunza recently he inaugrated a ‘Benazir Langar’ for the IDP’s who would never have needed such help had he done his ffing job in the first place.
The second photo shows the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mian Nawaz Sharif also showing a child some affection in an IDP camp in Hunza. This photo too gets my blood boiling for the opposition party which Mr Sharif leads has been criminally silent and apathetic on Hunza until it was too late and so they too share some of the blame for Hunza’s heaven turning into hell.
What makes it worse is that the former Prime Minister was on a private visit to the UK for nearly two weeks and said little about Hunza then and even less so when he has been in Pakistan given the landslide occured in January thus giving the opposition party five months to find their voice on helping Hunza.
I acknowledge and support the compensation packages announced by the federal government and the Punjab government in recent days but they are far too little and too late. Prime Minister Gilani and former Prime Minister Sharif have in truth been on a holiday in Hunza for they have done practically little to help Hunza and her people when help was needed and helpful. Indeed Hunza has been betrayed by Pakistan’s prime ministers past and present and that pains me no end.
