-PM says moral decay, corruption leads to State disintegration
-Orders federal secretaries to visit Baluchistan every month to resolve problems
By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: Lashing out at the opposition, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said that Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) long march was meant to get a national reconciliation ordinance (NRO).
Presiding over a meeting of PTI’s core committee, PM Imran said that the PDM’s proposed long march has nothing to do with the problems of the people.
Terming the long march pressure tactics, the prime minister reiterated that he will never bow down before the opposition’s pressure. He maintained that the opposition wanted to create anarchy in the country through the politics of protest.
The prime minister said that he will never compromise with those who plundered the national wealth.
Matters pertaining to elections for Senate’s chairman and deputy chairman, strategy to deal with the opposition’s long march, and other issues were discussed in the meeting.
Earlier on Marach 4, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz general-secretary Ahsan Iqbal had announced that Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) would begin its long march against the incumbent government from Karachi on March 26. While addressing PML-N general council meeting in Islamabad, Ahsan Iqbal had said that the long march will begin from Karachi on March 26 and caravans from all over the country will reach the federal capital by March 30.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said in absence of justice and rule of law, a State could lead towards disintegration. “The recent Senate elections showed how we are losing our moral compass,” he said in a series of tweets. The Prime Minister said once moral authority was lost by the State, the deal-making (NRO) was reported to the powerful criminals. He mentioned a saying of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) as “Many nations before you were destroyed when there was one law for the powerful and another for the weak.”
The Prime Minister stressed that throughout history, moral decay and corruption destroyed States because of their failure to deliver justice. He quoted several renowned personalities of their time who emphasized on morality in a society. He shared a quote of British Statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke who in 1777 said “all who have ever written on government are unanimous that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist”. He quoted British judge Patrick Devlin (1905-92) as saying that “an established morality is as necessary as good government to the welfare of society. Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures”.
The Prime Minister also mentioned a quote of American General Douglas McArthur (18880-1964) as “History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline”.
Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday also directed all federal secretaries to visit Balochistan to monitor and resolve the problems of the people on priority. He asked the federal secretaries to pay the visit at least once a month and resolve issues related to their ministries, divisions and departments.
