Dr. Muhammad Amjad Hussain from Rohillawanli – Muzaffargarh
Our city has been suffering the consequences of official neglect for years. Roads have fallen apart, sewage water stands in the streets, inflation has crushed families, and essential services like clean water, electricity, and healthcare barely function. Yet, in the middle of all these failures, the government has chosen to come down hardest on ordinary citizens—issuing heavy fines and FIRs for not having a driving license. The irony is painful: where the state should serve, it punishes; where it should repair, it demands; where it should provide, it prosecutes.
The licensing system itself is in shambles. Residents from Rohailanwali and surrounding areas report that despite thousands needing licenses, only a few have actually been issued. People spend entire days standing in lines, only to return home frustrated and empty-handed. One father, who desperately needed to take his sick child to Khan Garh, spent the whole day trying to get his license made. When he failed, he had no choice but to go back home with tears in his eyes and no help from the system that demands compliance but refuses to deliver services.
This raises a very simple question: how can a laborer who earns only 900 rupees a day—who must buy flour for 500 and vegetables for 300—be expected to pay a fine of 2,500 rupees? How can the government justify punishing people who already struggle just to feed their families? These fines are not discipline; they are cruelty.
Even more troubling is the silence of those who should speak. Journalists, community leaders, and local representatives have shown little interest in raising these issues. Their silence only deepens the public’s suffering. If they do not stand with the people in times like this, when will they?
If the government insists on strict law enforcement, then it must also accept strict accountability. Who will answer for the broken roads, the sewage flooding, the closed water plants, the shortage of electricity and gas, the rising costs of living, and the deteriorating state of healthcare? If a citizen can be jailed for not having a license, then who should be jailed for these failures? Negligence at this scale is not just incompetence—it is a crime against the people.
The government often compares itself to developed countries when enforcing rules, but it never offers the services or governance standards those countries provide. It is unfair and irrational to demand the discipline of a developed nation without giving citizens the facilities of one.
People are ready to follow the law. They are not refusing responsibility. But they also deserve answers. They deserve roads they can drive on, clean water in their homes, electricity that works, hospitals that can treat their children, and a licensing system that actually functions.
If the government can question the public, then the public has every right to question the government. This is not rebellion—it is the voice of a people who have been ignored for far too long.
