In poor taste: Poor are born to serve the rich, says Pakistan politician
Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob Khan Nasar, a senator from the ruling PML-Nawaz party, during a discussion said that if everyone were to become wealthy, there would be no one to grow wheat or to work as labourers.
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Islamabad,UPDATED: Aug 26, 2016 15:48 IST
In Short
- Pakistan leader said poor born to serve the rich.
- He said if everyone were wealthy, there would be no one to work as labourers.
- Others countered, but Nasar wasn't convinced.
A Pakistani politician has come under attack from colleagues after saying that the poor are meant to serve the rich.
Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob Khan Nasar, a senator from the ruling PML-Nawaz party, made the controversial comments at a meeting of a Senate committee on Thursday, the Dawn today reported.
The remark came when Taj Haider of the Pakistan People's Party began a discussion on how Pakistan had become the property of the ruling elite and that all decisions were made in the interests of the rich.
WHO SAID WHAT
- "The poor of this country will never get to decide their own fate," Haidar said.
- To this, Nasar remarked that if everyone were to become wealthy, there would be no one to grow wheat or to work as labourers.
- "This is a system created by God and He has made some people rich and others poor and we should not interfere in this system," he said.
- Haider countered that socio-economic classes were man-made and God had nothing to do with it.
- Another Senator, Mohammad Usman Khan Kakar, too said that God created all people as equal and that the poor were not meant to serve the rich.
- But Nasar could not be convinced and said: "Once in China all people were considered equal, which did not work out well.
- "Those who cannot get an education and cannot earn more have no right to live the life of a bureaucrat," he said.
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