Is 'something' better than nothing?
Relief Goods Politics rife in Chitral
CHITRAL --For a change, instead of the usual mudslinging
and traditional leg pulling, some positive
competitive relief goods politics is being seen in
Chitral even after six months of the floods. Almost all
political parties whether it be the PPP, ANP, JI,
PTI and now the PML(N) have distributed relief
goods to affected people in different parts of Chitral. Whereas, prima facie, it appears a benign gesture to distribute essential goods to flood stricken people, but
the negative after-effect it creates, is that people
start looking more and more for alms and get in the
habit culture
of passive begging.The better form of helping
flood affectees would have been to help with the
working of essential infrastructure in their area like
electricity, drinking water etc which is in a
pathetic state. --CN
report, GH
Farooqi,17 Dec 2010
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