Numerous Pakistanis keep starving. But a starving Pakistani does not get his starvation free of charge. He pays for it and pays dearly. He pays with his blood. His starvation is a very expensive affair. The starvation sucks his blood. It keeps on sucking and sucking till all the available blood is sucked up. The starver dies. His starvation dies with him. The fellow is buried. When alive, his starvation ate him. When buried, the earthworms eat him. But the earthworms are extremely unlucky. They get only a stinking dried skin and tasteless brittle bones to eat. Absolutely undoubtedly, we have abundant means of feeding all the starving Pakistanis. But we dont feed them. But why dont we feed them? Why have we granted starvation full freedom to eat them? It is a national secret known only to the Pakistanis who have the means of feeding the starvers, but who dont feed them. The motherland keeps watching her poor sons being devoured by starvation. She also keeps watching her affluent sons who can feed her starving sons, but they dont feed them. How miserable the mother must be She must be lamenting: My rich sons are killing my poor sons. I disown the killers. Our politicians can feed the starving masses. But instead of feeding them, they are fighting each other. Their fights remind us of the Roman gladiators. But there is a difference. The gladiators fought with swords. But our politicians fight with their tongues. Sometimes, a tongue cuts deeper than a sword. The victim bleeds inwardly. But he does not show the wound. Showing the wound be tantamount to accepting defeat. The tongue-fighting has been in full swing for quite some time. The masses have full knowledge of the biting capabilities of the various tongues. We are a democracy. We must ask the masses which particular tongue, according to their judgement, is the sharpest tongue. The winning tongue should be awarded a national trophy. One cant help feeling that the Devil is doing extremely flourishing business in Pakistan. He must be thankful to Pakistan for the successes he has achieved here. No doubt, he is also active in other parts of the world. But according to his own assessments, his successes in Pakistan are unprecedented. He must be thinking of abandoning his activities in other parts of the world and settling permanently in Pakistan. During the entire human history, only a few rulers believed that they were sent to this world for serving the masses. They did serve their masses with full devotion. Actually, they were not rulers. They were the slaves of their masses. They were proud of their slavery. What a majestic slavery The rest of the rulers firmly believed that they were sent to the world to inflict as much misery on the masses as they possibly could. Each ruler of this category brutalised the masses to the best of his capabilities. What happened in the past is re-happening in the contemporary world. History is repeating itself. In most of the countries the masses are miserable. Their misery is not just a coincidence. It is a misery deliberately created by the rulers. The rulers believe that the miserable masses are as easy to be ruled as the asses. For them, the masses are asses in human garb. The western democracy is a democracy of full stomachs. Our democracy is a democracy of empty stomachs. Under a democracy of full stomachs, the stomachs are the law of the land. But under a democracy of empty stomachs, the politicians are the law of the land. Numerous stomachs in Pakistan are empty stomachs. Yet, we are gone democratic. No wonder, a politico-economic earthquake is jolting the country. If we honestly desire to rescue Pakistan from the current disaster, we must temporarily suspend our democracy. During the suspension period, we should get all the empty stomachs surgically removed and full stomachs transplanted in their place. When all the Pakistanis are equipped with full stomachs, the current disaster will flee the land. We have given all our resources to a special category of Pakistanis. Nothing is left for the masses, but starvation and diseases. Those who have resources dont have any problems and those who have problems dont have any resources. We dont mix resources with problems. We are an adulteration free country. The writer is an academic.