Does every cloud have a silver lining?

Sidra Khan -

Whenever I am inquired about the toughest thing I’ve ever had to do, certainly the witnessing the current deteriorating conditions prevailing in my country is the first thing that hits my mind. With a literacy rate of 49.9%, we have always been a rather poor country, but still progressing at a estimable pace as becoming a nuclear power is no child’s play. But what has gotten into the people for the past couple of years is awfully disconcerting.  One fine morning, a little kid with his school bag on and a young man all dressed up for his office, both leave their place; safe and sound but as soon as they hit the road.. BANG!!! Yet another bomb blast and all that their families get to see of them is nothing but tattered and dilapidated pieces of their bodies. The news appears on T.V; people watch a glimpse of it, mourn over it for a second or two and instantaneously change the channel because it has become such a routine for us that we pretty much seem to be getting immune to it. The bomb blast at every nook and corner every other day and the conflicts between different provinces might not have quenched The U.S’s thirst for Muslim’s blood that they decided to back it with drone attacks in Waziristan in which they’ve killed thousands of innocent faces by putting up a false tag of ‘Taliban’ on them. I wasn’t brought up to see all of this, neither to witness incidents like the two brothers being brutally murdered for no good reason in front of dozens of people including the police officials themselves in Sialkot. Nor had I ever have thought that an American educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist will be sentenced to 86 years of prison after being savagely tortured for so long by the U.S. How could we expect from our honorable government to give an ordinary citizen a safe and peaceful lifestyle when they could take all the dignity away from our greatest national hero; Dr. Abdul Qadeer Kahn and insult him on international grounds. Being one of the richest countries in minerals and natural resources, why do we have to bear with the electricity and gas crisis when our authorities enjoy the most luxurious lifestyle one can have in their posh and lavish mansion like homes? Why would our respected Mr. President be concerned about hundreds of youngsters commit suicide everyday out of unemployment when he was enjoying a vacation with his family abroad while the greatest calamity of all times (the rampant floods) hit his country? This is not the Pakistan our great Quaid had passed on to our leaders. This is not our fore fathers sacrificed their lives for. This is not my mother told me about my beloved country when she first taught me how to spell Pakistan. This is definitely not my world...