کینالز، کارپوریٹ فارمنگ اور شہری عوام کی پیاس
ہے سرکش عشق دریا، بند اس پر کیوں لگاتے ہو
انساں کو چاہتا ہوں میں، خدا سے کیوں ڈراتے ہو
After the British left, our colonial exploitation did not end but only changed its form.
After the departure of the British, Pakistan fell into the hands of the same institutions where feudal and employed capitalist institutions whose irrigation was done by the white masters are maintained to keep us in the chains of slavery. It seems that we are independent but our resources are occupied by foreign capital and our ruling class is still brokered by foreign capital in the same way as when colonialism was directly imposed on the subcontinent. The Pakistani government still considers development as an issue of where to evict citizens from to make their exploitative and imperialist projects in the name of this foreign “development”. Who is this development for? Are we still just slaves to their systems?
This is going on at the fastest pace, but the biggest problem is that the people of the cities, especially the middle class, are completely alienated from the domestic production system on the one hand and are subjected to the propaganda of the imperialist forces and ruling classes. It is not known how these things are being made, where their ingredients are being grown or extracted, what politics is being played on them and what impact it is having on us.
Three factors have played an important role behind the ongoing gas crisis in the country today.
First, despite our own expertise, when gas was available in large quantities, contracts were given to large foreign companies like BP, Union Texas and ENI, and many foreign companies are still doing this work.
Secondly, during Musharraf’s tenure, gas was used as CNG and such a precious resource was wasted.
The third and most important reason is that under pressure from the brave US, instead of buying cheap gas from Iran, an agreement was signed to buy very expensive gas in the form of LNG. It is our alienation and state propaganda that we did not raise any voice against it but even supported this step for temporary gain in the CNG issue.
At present, under the Green Pakistan Initiative, more canals are being drawn from rivers and corporate farming in deserts and arid areas is being planned under the interests of imperialist capital. The public backlash is unfolding. But its effects are not limited to the villages but also the cities and especially the city of Karachi. It will have a very negative impact on the city where the water available at present is not even forty percent of the needs of Karachi while tanker mafia are still prevalent. But due to all this, the water in the ground is also running out rapidly and its surface is going down.
Karachi Bachao Tehreek believes that the issue of canals needs to be taken very seriously by the people of Karachi and other cities and that the entire rural population is protesting against it.
More canals on Indus River unacceptable!