When capitalism killed a Karachiite
Monday, April 28th, 2008Man is greedy by nature. It has always lust to have things more and more. It increases more when a man is given option to kill his hunger fo earning more. Capitalism in Karachi has started showing its true color. Now we will be hearing more and more such news. According to The News:
Monday, April 28, 2008
By our correspondent
Karachi
Due to the alleged immense pressure and threats from the loan recovery staff of a bank, a man committed suicide inside his house within the jurisdiction of the New Karachi police station.
Mohammed Tufail, 27, according to his father, Mohammed Munchi, was residing at R-93, Block-11L, New Karachi, which is where he committed suicide.
He added that his son, Tufail, got married a few years back and had one son. Due to some differences with Tufail, his wife had left him and gone to her parents’ house. A few months back, he had also gone through another setback, suffering a big financial loss in his LPG business.
Later, he applied for a loan from the Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB). Due to a delay in the payment of an instalment, the recovery staff of the MCB started visiting his house and threatening him with dire consequences. On Sunday, when Tufail was present at his house, the recovery personnel once again came calling and began to continuously pressurise his son. After a heated argument, the MCB recovery staff left.
Later, ostensibly due to the constant harassment of the recovery staff, Tufail locked himself inside his room and hanged himself from a ceiling fan.
Station House Officer, New Karachi, Pervez Gujjar, said that they were waiting for the statement of the family and, as soon as they approached the police for the registration of an FIR against the recovery staff of the MCB, they would oblige.
We should not cry neither we should blame MCB Bank. After all it was all about “Dil Mangay More” that provoked Tufail to” take advantage” of such friendly loan schemes by Pakistani banks who are like our slaves and ready to make our dreams come true at the cost of filth like Interest. IMO, West has hurt us more by injecting Capitalism among Muslims than things like vulgarity and lewdness because things offered by Capitalism are mostly associated with Interest rate. Any Muslim can understand that vulgarity is bad and hence this move might not be much influential. Atleast people still consider vulgarity and lewdness are bad things but when one takes loan, he/she is concerned more about getting loan ASAP to get his desired stuff rather to think about consequences. Capitalism which is opposed to Islamic concept of Economy restricts money in few hand while Islam’s Zakat concept keep the money in flow among all.
Now who should be blamed here? I don’t know. Maybe to government that it has created such environment where people are getting used to earn things easily at the cost of their life or to blame people that they have become more greedy. I am living in the era that if I have Rs.15,000 in pocket, I can get a brand new car within a week. At first it sounds good but then we have to face things like faced by Tufail. May Allah keep us safe from such loans. Ameen.












