No Contingency Plan was there as what if, it has been an ongoing dilemma for people who are heavily taxed on the name of 'Grand National Interest' and they pay it in the form of their lives and when they don’t have anything to pay they take their lives, as they are no longer useful tool for tax collection.

It was over five hours that nothing could be done for the people stranded in the heart of Islamabad the federal capital of Pakistan and it was but a multistory building and other areas have entire cities and villages wiped out under land slides and debris.

The earthquake 7.6 Richter Scale jolted Pakistan and was felt worse in Azad Kashmir devastating it five districts.

The death toll till filing of this report is not confirmed 40,000 are said to have perished and injured alone are nearing 100,000 and it is expected to rise as the time passes. The areas are inaccessible as nothing could be done, roads are swept and there is no other passage that can take the relief or rescue workers except wings.

The lessons since January this year have been tremendous and every time the incompetency, callousness, lack of equipment and relief goods was pointed and a general apathy was observed, as it was not Islamabad. Like all times these points were brushed under the carpet as it was a temporary and there is a lot of man power and Pakistan is an over populated country and masses will pull through.

The incident in Islamabad showed all that has scores of department and no one come on the scene with proper tools. They all came unprepared and ill equipped and the attitude can be observed that the crane to lift the debris came after five hours and the injured inside who had a chance to get out alive just succumbed to death and still many are trapped inside and have their life line diminishing by the minutes as the rubble is removed slowly.

Hats off to the rescue teams, Britons made it first who are selfless and have equipment and with them came hope which was lost hours ago, local administration can do well in keeping the local rescuers at distance as they did baton charge and abused the people who did rescue work on Margalla Towers. The local admin can stay and watch as watchdogs, as there are trained dogs, which are finding people in debris and deserve praise in service to humanity.

Needless to say that all the chaos left a lot to be desired as eye witness account of people cracking concrete with stone as an endeavour to break past the slab to get to the trapped loved one inside pushing tons of rubble with hands which is not moving an inch to squeeze past to get to the sound that said help.

This is an account gathered from different reports and eyewitnesses in Islamabad other cities are far off and have road network that is far worse and just 40 kilometers from Islamabad the road leading to Murree is swept by the landslide.

Mansehra less than 100 miles (140 kilometers) from Islamabad is devastated beyond recognition and in its villages there has been small children who in quest for education were buried alive as their school roofs cave in and that is reported at many schools in the area and locals are digging their dead from the rubble. The children alone are numbered in thousand dead as they all gathered in their classes and had no chance to get out.

The disasters sweeping the length and breadth of country not touching Islamabad but near and around witnessed unprecedented snow and 50 kilometers away from the heart of Islamabad the hill station Murree give a lesson to the Government in January that harped tunes for the providing amenities to the masses every hour. The road blocked never allowed teams to pass the area for a week.

The snow took its toll and death toll was never known added with the loss of property as it was cold and the count couldn’t be held and its an established norm that it happens every year so its of no consequence.

The flood in summers were unprecedented, the overflow of water gutted thousands of villages across Pakistan in all the provinces and hundred of thousands of people were displaced and were homeless who were announced compensation and its not known whether they were awarded or not.

The earthquake having center just 95 kilometers from Islamabad played havoc in Azad Kashmir and the five districts are devastated with thousands buried alive in debris and they have no chance of getting out alive as the entire area is inaccessible because of land slides. The air drops with food and blankets are made but who will take it as majority is under rubble.

The three natural disasters with snow, floods and now earthquake and no contingency plans show a general apathy of the government towards its subjects which can be referred as slaves or more so as insects as its them who die so far its is not heard any big wig facing the same fate of the commoner.

All the tall claims of improving the life in the past have been washed, people were left at the mercy of circumstances in case of snow and in floods and now earthquake.

The building in Islamabad showed what is happening in the heart of Islamabad and the level of preparedness from government side if any such incidents happen.

The appeal made by the police chief who controlled baton charging gun slinging force was of earth moving equipment from the private construction companies and nothing was insight till sun set on the first day of the earthquake.

People used bare hands to remove the debris and were successful in getting the survivors out but it left a lot to be desired from the power brokers in Islamabad.

The labourers and locals in vicinity deserves kudos as they worked and did the rescue as everyone in land of the pure knows that in the end it will be only him to do as he must and its not the government job. It is known and established norm in land of the pure that government is busy raising the life style of the masses and has records to show that it has done a lot for the poor commoner of the country.

The poor commoner takes it as fate as he is a collateral damage as he come in the way of eventuality be it snow, flood or earthquake.

The government just makes the announcements of giving compensation which hardly reaches people, what is witnessed is so few and thousands of hungry stay back as they were not lucky to be in the compensation list as it’s a task that is done with great care and has its own tale of corruption.

The enough manpower in Pakistan is in the form of jobless youth in millions that to date is never utilized. This youth could have been used as rescue workers in all these devastated areas if there was a contingency plan which unfortunately is never considered as what ever happens in land of the pure comes to the poor the big wigs are always unharmed.

A quake affectee said, “The politicians were having a meeting in senate I wish their wall should have caved in but that building was made with quake hazard in mind it just left a crack and they run to safety outside if they had faced the same fate as us they would be more considerate.
I say all these politicians who are in posh areas of Islamabad should be sent to their constituencies and I bet on my life they will be lynched before they say a word to console people and that’s a risk no politician in his right mind will take.”

Land of the pure has been faced with such dilemmas every time and every time there are lessons but every time they are forgotten as it in the not humans who perish but ordinary commoners and poor who have no say and will never have any say and no wonder people say the slogan its not Pakistan Zindabad but Pakistan Say Zinda Bhag.

“When I have my rights as a human and I am not living in perpetual fear I will say I am human but till that time I call myself insect in the land of the pure and insect I remain,” as with all the education as in making me a better human is a waste as it never guarantees even my very basic of rights,” said a jobless youth at the scene of Margalla Tower.