Electricity: Dropping rates? | Increase in Street Crimes: By IA Hashmi

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's announcement of reducing electricity prices in a few days is encouraging. The above announcement made at the Independence Day ceremony has given a ray of hope to the common man who is suffering from difficult situations. The Prime Minister says that he will present a five-year economic plan. With this statement, the expectations have been strengthened that the five-year comprehensive economic plan will help to overcome the energy crisis, and the aspects of support to small and large businesses will also be prominent along with agriculture and industry. Employment opportunities, which have shrunk sharply in the past years, will recover rather than expand. The Prime Minister mentioned factors like power struggle, internal and external conspiracies, our own mistakes and selfishness as reasons why the country's 77-year journey is not enviable in many respects. It should be expected that the new five-year plan All these aspects will be taken into consideration. The rising electricity rates coupled with the increase in various taxes have made electricity bills a nightmare for the people.

This problem seems to be taking a psychological turn and causing social unrest, which Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is certainly not unaware of the need to quickly control. In the cabinet meeting earlier this month, Mian Shahbaz Sharif said that without reducing electricity rates, exports cannot increase or agriculture can develop. The fact is that the effects of the rapid increase in electricity rates for some time are showing on the one hand in the mood of the common people, and on the other hand, some news of suicides is disturbing. Industrialists. are also feeling dissatisfied with the situation. Expensive electricity is causing the cost of exports to rise day by day, affecting their competitiveness in the international market, while some industries are rumored to be moving to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, even Jordan. Pakistan is the country that in 1990, its export to GDP ratio was 14.8%, which was much higher than China, India and Bangladesh, but due to the inattention of various governments and the artificial control of the dollar, the exports were negatively affected. Keep suffering. According to an estimate of the World Bank, Pakistan's exports decreased by 58.2% to only 8.2% in 2017.2 percent remained.

Now, the Prime Minister is determined to increase Pakistani exports to 30 to 60 billion dollars in three years, so according to experts, he will have to make decisions that can be called very big according to the current situation. The determination expressed by the Prime Minister in the Cabinet meeting held on August 13 and later in the address to the leaders of electricity distribution companies to change the rotten country system is definitely the need of the hour, but some aspects of the situation including the conditions of the IMF. It is also equivalent to accepting a big challenge in the presence of Major and urgent decisions were made due to the issues pointed out by the Prime Minister, including the theft of electricity worth Rs. The need is being highlighted. Mian Shehbaz Sharif's statement shows that the lines of the new plan are clear in his mind. People expect that this plan will come out soon and do something to alleviate their hardships.

 

Increase in Street Crimes

The citizens of the country are losing goods worth crores of rupees or the same value every day in cases of crimes including extortion, theft and extortion, while a large number of youths are inclined towards crimes due to the inattention and indifference of the relevant government machinery and police officials. There is no small or big city in the country, including the federal capital, which is safe from street crimes at the moment. Every day, in the incidents carried out at the point of arms, the criminals remain with the citizens due to economic conditions. Khachi does not leave savings. Despite having relevant ministries and departments under them at the federal and provincial levels in the country, how is all this happening, there is a need to check the performance of employees from the highest to the lowest level. Media.

According to reports, there is evidence of criminals moving easily from one district to another, even provinces, after committing the crimes, which reveals their activities. In the last few cities of Sindh, especially Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur. For years, the reports of kidnappings and other incidents and the links of the criminals behind them with street bandits have spread fear and panic in the urban circles. It cannot be denied that mobile phones have changed the working culture and social system in many ways. It is also providing facilities for criminals, but in this advanced age of technology, this facility can also turn into a roundup of them, which the government machinery is well aware of. People become tools of terrorists, realizing the situation, ensuring practical arrangements for its disposal is the imperative need of the hour.