Roti, Kapra aur Makan

Just as they claim, PPP is no doubt striving hard to provide Roti, Kapra and Makan to the poor of our country. But we must be patient because they cannot do this overnight. They can only do it step by step. And they have already taken the first big step. They are showing on PTV the roti kapra and makan, of the rulers and their rich associates. The delicious foods the rich eat are shown in the 'food programmes'in which we have meat cooked in butter and drinks flavoured with milk and honey. This, while the poor subsist on sookhi roti and that too only if they are fortunate to get it.  The PTV dramas are showing the kapra too,  the rich silks and brocades worn by the rich while the poor don't have anything except tatters to wear. These dramas and khabar-namas also show the palatial houses of the rulers and their rich friends. The poor can't even compare these palaces to their mud-and-reed jhonpprys, which drip every time it pours. -DR ZAHEER ASGHAR KHAN, Lahore Cantt., via e-mail, July 12.

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