Clearly poverty has emerged as the principal problem requiring urgent attention if a large-scale social breakdown is to be averted, with its concomitant implications for law and order . For years to come we will remain broke. All the government organizations and institutions, many of which do not justify their existence, and the armed forces are all living beyond their means. The country s revenue earnings amount to some Rs.450 billion per year. Moaning and groaning and giving in to threatened riots and marches on the capital does not help.
Tomorrow is the first day of the next millennium.
We must thank our stars that despite the destroyers of our country who have led us since Jinnah died in 1948 we have so far only lost half of it.