book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

The West

The British Museum is stuffed with the cultural plunder of an empire.
Disallowing the establishment of industries, the British empire consistently robbed the Indian economy of its agricultural resources as the spoils of occupation and glibly termed it as trade for the benefit of the Indians, such as selling of high-priced textile goods back to the Indians, manufactured in Manchester city from the cheaply bought Indian cotton.
Imperialists of the last five centuries are now the members of the European Union. Divided, they ruled the continents. United, they wish to dominate the world economy.
In the European empires, trade followed the flag. In the European Union, flags follow the trade.
Rich countries of the West do not trade with the poor countries for a fair share of the cake but for the whole cake, leaving a thin slice for the wretched of the earth.
The Soviets erected the iron curtain, the Chinese raised the bamboo curtain, and now the European Union has installed the market curtain.
IMF’s stiff conditionalities of international debt are Hobson’s choice, the option to take what is offered hook, line and sinker or nothing at all.
The World Trade Organization is an association dominated by the Western countries, which makes rules and treaties to decide what rich countries will plunder which poor countries, and in what trade.
The international money lenders like the IMF and World Bank are donor agencies, donating poverty and pain to the helpless poor countries caught in the vortex of constantly spiraling debt and interest.
It is not the currency, but the sweat and blood of the posterity of an indebted country, which gets devalued by the international loans of IMF and World Bank.
Thanks to the concerted efforts of the rich countries, many third world countries are no longer poor – they are now destitute.
The poor and the wretched of the world – for God knows how long – will remain poor and wretched, as they are ensnared in the spiral of constantly mounting burden of foreign debt. Such debit is all the more vicious as it is reploughed with cumulative interests in the backdrop of cunningly contrived and continuous upward revision in the values of donors’ currencies and concurrent downward recession of the recipients’ currencies. The object is to maintain donors’ prosperity by rapacious exploitation of the donees’ natural resources, labour, and economy.
Western governments pride themselves in doing good for their people, except prohibiting gambling, which causes enormous harm to the society in the guise of entertainment.
Reason for the English satirizing the Australians is the Aussies’ obsession for the things English.
Gambling has ruined many fortunes and lives, but it is considered a sport and not a crime in the civilized societies of the West.
The Europeans coming from the cold climates were dirty and unsanitary in habits, before they conquered the colonies of the East. It were the Indians and the Chinese who taught them cleanliness and personal hygiene.
I mute the sound of TV, when the commentators of BBC or CNN start justifying Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Then the voiceless commentators look as strange and unreal as the lies they broadcast.
The American President has rightly warned that the death knell for the kings and dictators in the Middle East has been sounded with the American invasion of Iraq, as were the dictators in Europe swiftly eliminated, after the fall of dictatorship in Portugal in 1970s, and as the communism eventually died beginning with the revolt against it in Poland in 1980s. According to him, democracy shall prevail.
Capitalism produces wealth for the rich. There are about two billion and three hundred million people in South Asia and China, more than one-third of the world population. The West is anxious to induce them to work for it with high-sounding and misleading shibboleths of mutually beneficial free trade and smooth flow of foreign investment. The deceptive purpose is to use cheap labour of these populous countries and re-sale the same products to them at much higher premiums. The West intends to get away with this highway robbery, because it has the advantage of the head-start of exclusive technology, expertise and wealth, new inventions, brand names and widespread organized network of multinationals; and also the power to safeguard its privileged position with the weapons of mass destruction from the long distances.

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Rasheed A. Akhund

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