The
artificial shortage of CNG is "democracy's best revenge" against our
people
The
Khilafah will rescue the Ummah from artificial energy crises
People
who have already been suffering from numerous crises are now forced to bear the
artificial CNG shortage as well. People are must sit in
their cars, queuing for many hours in order to fill gas in their cars. Instead
of ending this artificial shortage, people have been advised to switch to
costly imported LNG and petrol or be prepared to buy expensive CNG. About a
decade ago, the government itself introduced CNG in the transport sector and
marketed it heavily. The government explained its benefits, claiming that it is
an endogenous resource and therefore its consumption will reduce our reliance
on costly imported petrol and diesel and valuable foreign exchange will be
saved. Furthermore because CNG is a cheap fuel, its use will reduce inflation,
which will increase the buying power of the people and on top of that because
it is a clean fuel, its consumption will help to reduce environmental pollution
as well. That was then. Ye, during all these years, did the rulers not know
that we do not have enough gas resources to introduce our transport sector to
gas too, after fulfilling the requirements of domestic and industrial clients
as well as the power sector? Is this a new revelation? In fact, these rulers
are lying. There is no real energy shortage in the country. It is proved by the
fact that electricity crisis has been reduced dramatically for the last two
months. Before that there was twelve hour load shedding in major cities, which
has been reduced to a mere one or two hours only.
On
2 October 2012, the Adviser for Petroleum and Natural resources, Dr. Asim
Hussain, admitted that a number of companies that had completed exploration
work did not announce their discoveries because of unattractive prices. When he
was asked why they have not been penalized, he replied that government had to
be practical, instead of pushing away companies by penalizing them. Now these
companies are ready to start production and supply gas, according to the new
prices announced in the 2012 Petroleum Policy. This cruel government has almost
doubled the price of gas in its new petroleum policy from 3.24 dollar MMBTU to
6 dollar MMBTU. The Oil and Gas Development Corporation Ltd, which meets 58
percent of oil demand and 27 percent of gas, has earned 91 billion Rupees in
net profit, after taxation in the financial year 2011-12. If the profit of only
one company is so high, then we can imagine that the other companies are also
making profits in billions of Rupees annually. Now their profits will rise even
more after the implementation of new prices.
This
is the "achievement" of the democratic system! A resource which is
essential for humanity and national usage was made scarce, just because a few
companies were not getting their desired profit. Now once again this criminal
and cruel activity of creating artificial shortage has caused the closure of
thousands of industrial units for weeks, with its labour losing its means of
earning and being thrown into the jaws of hunger, whilst the country will lose
trillions of Rupees. Other than this, the proof that rulers are responsible for
this artificial shortage is that despite several years have passed by, they
have not utilized one of the largest coal reserves in the world situated in
Thar, Sindh.
The
statement of the Adviser, Dr. Asim Hussain, confirms that whether it is
democratic rule or dictatorship, in both cases the capitalist system is always
implemented. That's why America and colonialist powers always support both
dictators and democratic rulers in Muslim countries because in both cases, the
rulers of Muslim countries make polices according to the wishes of America and
Western powers. Therefore we see that there are many countries in the world who
possess immense natural resources, but their people live in abject poverty,
whilst multinational companies and the rulers fill their accounts with the
wealth of that country. This only occurs because in democracies and
dictatorships, rulers surrender resources like oil, gas and natural resources
to private ownership in the name of the free market economy.
Only
the Khilafah will liberate the Muslim Ummah and the whole of humanity from this
oppression, because Islam has shut the door of corruption forever, by taking
the power of legislation from humans. Islam declared all natural resources as
public property and therefore the Khilafah state will provide these resources
to the Ummah, without profiteering. Rasool Allah (saw) said: "Muslims are partners (associates) in three things: in water,
pastures and fire and its price is Haram (forbidden)."
(Abu Dawood).
Only
the implementation of one rule of Islam will divert the flow of trillion of
Rupees to the people, instead of going into the accounts and bank lockers of
corrupt rulers and multinational companies. The Ummah will be provided
economical and abundant energy resources and because of low-priced and
available energy, industry will flourish immensely. Hizb ut-Tahrir asks from
the people, if after elections a new government, with new faces will continue
to privatize energy resources then what difference would it make in their
lives? We will hear the same arguments that the energy crisis is because of the
previous government, whereas actually democratic system is the problem because
it implements man made laws. In democracy even an "honest" ruler does
not implement Islam, rather he implements the man-made laws of capitalism.
Therefore the Ummah must completely reject the kufr democratic system and join
Hizb ut-Tahrir in order to end the oppressive system and establish the system
of Khilafah which is based on the Quran and Sunnah, raising the cry "New Faces,
New System – Hizb ut-Tahrir and Khilafah System".
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