The Canvas

I feel nature is God’s direct way of showing happiness and anger to it’s people. I think! But what would God have to say to a land where people are rather simple, and non-materialistic. Where a mud house, some cattle and a camel is the priciest assets one can have. I am talking about Baluchistan and the devastation caused due to the deadly storms, not any other city or country. Same was feeling when the devastation of the 2005 Earth Quake hit northern Pakistan. What did they have to do with anything?

Probably my logic is flawed, and I’m not thinking right. OK, lets shift to another point of view… Is God testing us for our faith and character these days? With torrential rains and flooding. I think He might be! A country that can love rain at anytime given to the fact that our economy is predominantly agricultural and the water from the ice ranges up north is dwindling… Is our vanity hindering us from making the right decisions and knowing what is good for us and what is not?

The things going in and around our Pakistan are NOTHING to be proud of. The way we treat our judiciary, the way we treat our national heroes, the way we react mindlessly to titles being given in other countries, the way we have curtained ourselves in a world where we are always right and we have the right to tell others about our righteousness… or threat them with suicide bombings. Things we do and say in this world are not even slightly humane, let alone religiously moral or ethical!

I clearly remember the whole country mobilizing to help rescue and relieve the people in the north after the Earth Quake. But now, there isn’t even the slightest of whispers about the cyclone that just ran over Baluchistan. Why, probably because we simply don’t care! Do we want this to be our Katrina?

Dawn news post confirms the death Toll to have risen beyond 114. This is an insane about considering we are a nuclear state and the poorest of the poor has once used a mobile phone.

As incompetent our governments have been, I can’t even dream to see any refinement in our disaster management systems. The samaritan Pakistani citizenry is always left to fend for each other in such cases. But this time even that has vanished. One day, we will vanish. WE as a nation have failed ourselves, and also those who entrusted us…

Press more to view pictures posted via BBC and AFP. Read stories here and here about the on going monsoon crisis in our major cities.

Pictures from Turbat depict a scene of death, decay, damage and dismay. The situation is not only grim, its quite grievous.