The
electricity crisis through out the country is indeed democracy's best revenge
against the masses. It is an open secret that this crisis is not because of
generation capacity being unable to meet for our requirement. Then the question
is: Why have the people not been relieved from this crisis by the two previous
two regimes of Musharaf-Aziz and Kayani-Zardari? The rulers' point fingers
towards circular debt, expensive furnace oil, electricity theft, non-payments
of bills and the extreme inefficiencies of distribution companies.
However,
are these problems so insurmountable that the previous two governments could
not address them? In fact, the real cause is that in democracy these
electricity generating plants, units and their distribution companies are
privately owned businesses, rather than public properties. So even though the
installed capacity is 21,000 MW and the peak demand is 17,500 MW, the
electricity production remains at less than 9000 MW. The withholding of
payments to these companies by the government is allowed by democracy, adding
to the woes of the companies, who are struggling to produce whilst maintaining
profits and avoiding further debt, and so are forced to under-produce.
Moreover, whilst electricity remains private property, even if there is an
increased supply to quell the people's anger, it just means more debt for the
country and even more expensive electricity.
This
policy is employed because it keeps the people drowning in misery, so they do
not raise voice against the American Raj. Thus, the rulers have created this
crisis intentionally and now the strongest Muslim country seems to be weaker
then any weakest of African nations. And this scenario helps the rulers to make
excuses for their surrender before America. The rulers in waiting since the
11th May general elections have started to say even before they have been sworn
into office that they cannot give any specific date for the ending of this
crisis. Along with this, they are also creating a false perception that a
country which acquired nuclear and missile technology without the assistance of
any foreign power, cannot resolve this crisis without the help of America,
China or India. Moreover, on the one hand these rulers cry over scarcity of
resources when it comes to ending this crisis, but on the other hand they spare
nothing to fight America's war, draining seventy billion dollars from the
economy and spending billions of rupees of taxpayers' money to maintain and
secure the NATO supply line.
Democracy
and dictatorship only fulfill American colonialist interests. Only the Khilafah
will provide relief to the masses from this crisis by implementing rulings of
Islam regarding energy. According to the saying of RasulAllah (saw):
"Muslims are partners (associates) in three
things: in water, pastures and fire." (Dawood), the
Khilafah will declare all electricity generating plants, units, organizations
and their distributing companies as public property and abolish taxes imposed
on petrol, diesel, furnace oil etc. These measures will not only liberate
people from under-producing electricity producing units, it will also reduce
the cost of electricity as well. Other then this Khilafah will opt for the
policy of self reliance and promote the generation of electricity through those
resources, like water, coal, natural gas, which are available within the state.
This policy of self reliance further reduces the cost of electricity.
Hizb
ut-Tahrir warns the people that both democracy and dictatorship implement the
capitalist system and care only for colonialist interests. Only the Khilafah
can liberate the Ummah from the tyranny of the capitalist system and the clutches
of the colonialist powers, through the implementation of Islam. Therefore the
people must join Hizb ut-Tahrir in its struggle for the establishment of
Khilafah.
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