Source: Dawn
Author: Faiza Mirza
Amidst the clouds of political and economic turmoil looming over Pakistan, including fiascoes as big as “memogate scandal” and “President Zardari’s departure to UAE”, Pakistanis, through no fault of their own, tend to overlook many issues and news stories that demand more constitutional probing.
On December 14, 2011, when the news agencies were more interested in providing gory details of the aforementioned stories, an eight-year-old girl was found dead on a vacant plot opposite Sheikh Zayed Islamic Center of Karachi University.
We live in a narcissistic world where political leaders, generally, are hungry for phony glory and desperate for meaningless attention. Serving people is not on top of the agenda. Such problem is more pronounced in Pakistan and the worse part is that Pakistani media is not helping. To be considered a truly democratic force, Pakistani media must cover the news of rising poverty, oppression of minorities and women, lack of electricity, rising fanaticism and sham educational system as opposed to endlessly analyzing political circus in Pakistan. The politicians position themselves as defenders of constitution which unfortunately has become nothing but a piece of paper.