Public Transport of Karachi City:

Metropolitan City’s citizens are in trouble!

Karachi is a metropolitan city. No doubt it is economical hub and the biggest city of Pakistan. Since it is the biggest city of Pakistan it is one of the biggest cities of the world. It is Pakistan’s one of the leading industrial cities and the capital of Sindh too.

It is fully congested and thick populated city therefore it is suffering from many issues and problems. Here millions of people travel by bikes, millions of people travel by their own conveyances and a huge number of Karachi citizen travel by public transports. In a manner of saying there are many buses and mini buses which people travel by. But it is a bitter truth that people are suffering from the shortage of transports. Numbers of the passengers are far higher than the numbers of buses.

In the morning and evening time passengers gather at the bus stops to jump into the bus, hang on the bus and even many of them hang on the doors on their one foot. This could cause nasty accidents. Apart of this many passengers remain standing on their stops waiting for another bus as a result they fail to reach their jobs on time consequently they have to face the salary deductions. In the morning and evening time a huge crowd of passengers suffer in buses. The crowd reflects honey comb in the buses.

The buses are fully packed to the capacity and this becomes really very difficult for the passengers to get on and get off the bus. Passengers thrash each other to make room for them. In addition to this men break into the lady’s compartment and travel. Actually they are also compelled to do so because they have to reach their destinations on time.

Time is money. If timely work is executed then every city develops itself like other developed cities of the world. This is also one of the reasons that Karachi city is not a developed city despite of being the biggest city of our beloved motherland Pakistan.

It is necessary to highlight how women suffer and face difficulties while traveling in buses. They feel troubles and problems to catch the bus because their compartment is already packed to the capacity with men. Moreover buses’ drivers mostly don’t stop buses for women. It is really the point to be pondered over.

Time is money but for the buses’ drivers and conductors it is nothing. They keep standing at their particular stops for long time and waste their and passengers’ precious time. Passengers reach their homes very late at night so they don’t have time to do any social activities or social work as a result good society is not founded.

Sometimes it’s seen the drivers or buses’ conductors and passengers quarrel each other because of extra fares. Additionally very bad behavior of the conductors is also the cause of quarrels between them and passengers. They consider passengers as cattle and some rude or rowdy passengers consider conductors and drivers as their servants. Well, it takes two to quarrel. Intolerance is at the peak. If somebody is pushed, touched or thrashed a little, they start quarreling and calling names. Nobody possesses tolerance.

Less numbers of the buses as compare to plenty of passengers are causing serious problems. Who will resolve and sort out these problems. Of course the concerned authorities must constitute a team to ponder over this matter and take some bold and effective steps to get over these problems.

Numbers of the passengers cannot be lessened but new buses and new mini buses ought to be provided to Karachi for the sake of its citizens. 

Vacancies!!!

Are they really hiring???

Pakistan is suffering from many issues, but unemployment is one of the most dangerous issues of this democratic country.

In this independent country all business organizations, companies and co-operative societies have freedom and rights to select candidates on their merits. But unfortunately not only are the government institutions corrupted in the selections of employees but also the private sector is playing with the emotions, feelings and the futures of our beloved country’s youth.

Today it is not necessary to discuss government departments because most of the private firms and institutions are now vultures like. They (Pvt. Co.’s) advertise in newspapers for vacancies and ask candidates to report along with all necessary documents within limited and given time period and date. So far the things are in order and seem normal and decent. But when the candidates are called for final interviews they are asked references. If any other incompetent candidate has reference of an influenced person or he has the relation with the concerned authorities, he is easily selected and hired for the given post. But what about other candidates who have no references but qualifications, competencies and abilities to work far better than the hired person!

It seems just a process to recruit but in fact the selection is already done and decision is already made. These are not only my sayings nor are these out of reality.

This example was seen in one of the most well-known and the biggest pizza food company when they call the candidates for jobs at their “Five Star Karachi” branch having short listed the C.V’s. The candidates reached there at sharp 10 am according to the given time.

Dear readers! You cannot believe that all the candidates had to wait for 6 hours by around 2:30 pm without any refreshments. And afterwards they were told that the manager was busy and couldn’t attend their final interview so they had to report there again the next Thursday. And they were sent back their homes.

What is this? Is this recruitment?

Dear readers! In connection to this one more intolerable point needs to be shared with you; before sending the candidates back to their homes an assistant manager of that pizza company came shaking his car keys and showing arrogance. He sat before all the candidates and said that all the candidates had to work in their Bahria Town branch which was newly established there. And moreover that arrogant assistant manager told the candidates the salary package would be Rs. 9000 per month for waiters and kitchen assistants’ jobs.

What is this? Is this recruitment?

Is this not less than the minimum salary package decided by the government? They might have forgotten the minimum salary is Rs. 13000 per month according to the government.

But this big company is hiring the staff at lower package and taking advantage of their unemployment and compulsions.

The purpose of my writing is not to defame or blow upon any firm or organization. My motive actually is to make the readers aware of this atrocity. We keep crying because of unemployment but how can it be eradicated without making changes in the firms’ recruitment systems?

In conclusion our government and private both sectors’ recruitment systems have to be free from injustice and prevented from nepotism and favoritism. In this regard a free and fair team or an institute must be constituted for checking and auditing the firms and companies independently so that right and actual amount of salary package could be offered to all employees and competent candidates could be selected.

Final Destination

Life seems very easy and heaven to only a few people among the entire mankind but actually life is as difficult as to climb up the top of the Mount Everest.

Life is the name of struggle. In life a person has to face sorrows and happiness, grieves and joys, up and down.

Life is not a bed of roses. Many thorns are anxiously waiting for you to injure you and stop you to succeed. Life sets off its journey form the birth and leads you towards the final destination.

Your life’s journey decides and chooses your final destination. As a matter of fate final destination starts with the death of a person but as a matter of fact final destination is where you are ruling in the hearts and in the minds of the people.

You are still alive; this is your final destination in fact you are asleep because you are no more in the world. But actually yes you are alive because your thoughts and theory are awake in people’s minds.

Yeah! You are alive because your deeds are remembered and remarkable. You were alive and you are! And surely the future is yours when everybody is going to blow your trumpet.

That is what a person wants, that is what I want and that is what you should be thinking to have this final destination which starts after death but goes on till the end of the whole mankind.

And on that stage you rule and govern in the people’s hearts and minds. Although you are no more but you are alive, you exist and you dominant the mankind.

In conclusion, personally I believe the final destination is where you reach the optimum level of your satisfaction. But as far as optimum level is concerned, it should be vast. If it is vast, you surely will get through in every path of your life and of course having defeated all the hindrances and obstacles in the journey once you will get to your final destination. 

You the Only Reason...

You know why I exist, 
why I am happy in spite of suffering from many agonies, 
why I am successful after many failures. You know why I feel like stepping up, 
moving forward although I am in comfort zone. 

You know why I keep smiling in tensions too, why I want to do many more despite of possessing many more. You know why I never want to give up even though many thorns injure me. You know why I like the good things which I used to dislike ever.

Why ? yeah you are the only reason, it is just because of you that I exist, I am happy, I am successful. You are actually the only reason that I am smiling, I am dreaming to fly high. 

And yeah! You are the only reason that I am going to fly high as much high as I touch the sky. When I am wounded you heal me. When I am alone you are with me. When I am worried so you are the reason. When I cry so you are the reason. If I laugh it is just because of you. Whatever I have, whoever I am, wherever I am you are the only reason. 

And do you know who you people are? You are not only one “you”, You are my parents, You are my siblings, You are my teachers, You are my friends Yes you are my well-wishers. I love you all. I care for you all. I never want to miss you because I never want to lose you and I always want to have all of you around me. And actually, thank you all.