Loud Thinking July 25, 2014 at 10:45AM

AN EYE OPENING LETTER FOR THE PM PUBLISHED BY THE DAILY “THE NATION” TODAY.

PMLN HAS ALWAYS CONSIDERED THE BUSINESS CLASS AS ITS CONSTITUENCY.

LOOK HOW THIS CLASS IS SUCKING THE BLOOD OF THE POOR MASSES AND ALSO OFFERING NAMAZ AND PERFORMING UMRA AND HAJJ.

MIAN NAWAZ SHARIF SAHAB WHY YOUR GOVERNMENT IS NOT CRACKING DOWN ON SUCH UNSCRUPULOUS BUSINESSMEN WHO NEITHER PAY TAXES NOR THE BILLS?

MIAN NAWAZ SHARIF SAHAB WHY YOUR GOVERNMENT IS HELL BENT CRUSHING THOSE HONEST CITIZENS WHO ALWAYS PAY 100% TAXES AND BILLS?

MIAN NAWAZ SHARIF SAHAB ON THE JUDGEMENT DAY YOU WILL HAVE TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION BEFORE ALLAH ALMIGHTY THAT WHY YOU WERE SO CRUEL WITH THE POORS AS A RULER AND YOU WERE EXTREMELY LENIENT WITH THE LOOTERS AND PLUNDERERS OF THE NATION?

Letter:-

Renaming sin

July 25, 2014

Yesterday, I met up with a friend who has a large gold shop in a very famous shopping mall. Upon reaching his shop I was surprised to see so many lights and three air-conditioners running. There were no customers present, so I asked him how he could afford using so much electricity. He is an average person, who fasts regularly, says his namaz and goes for Hajj occasionally. We have known each other for 20 years. He told me that the line man of his area had made a deal with him to charge him only Rs 10,000 every month. This is a common practice in Pakistan and I should not have been surprised. But what astonished me was that I did not expect this from him.
As I went back home, it made me aware of the moral dilemma we all face, how things we would have labeled as theft have now become business transactions. The things we wouldnever have touched, ‘sooth’ (interest)is now infiltrating our lives, whether we want it to or not. We all have to make a distinction and draw lines. We need to make sure that we are not renaming sin and accepting it in its new garb. I hope that we can become better human beings as becoming better Muslims does not seem like much of a reality.

Lala Rukh Paracha,
Lahore, July 24.

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