Pipe and the piper.

It is a matter of mammoth embarrassment for an agricultural country like Pakistan where rampant poverty and soaring food inflation have confounded the miseries of the downtrodden segment of society manifold. Last year heavily devastating floods played havoc in Pakistan resultantly pushing about 6.8 to 9 million people into pauperism talons swooping up the poverty rate to 35.7 % as per cautious estimation of the World Bank (WB).

Apart from this, it is also really heartrending to witness that we are running short of food grains, productivity, and provision of wheat flour to the people. Seeing deplorable footage of the miserably poor people running after the flour bags having money in their hands like pipe and the piper on mainstream media has cast gloom on the entire nation and quite ironically still, we claim that Pakistan is an agricultural country. Even some disturbing reports have also taken the round on social and mainstream media where some people have been stampeded and died waiting for the flour bag to feed the hungry children and other family members.

Likewise, the political parties are swamped in political manipulations putting the genuine issues of the masses in sheer oblivion as no one is paying any sincere heed to the real issues and their...