These days hundreds of deaths are being reported in Karachi due to heat and lack of water and shortage of power. Writers are accusing the rulers in not building a mega dam like KBD that would have solved the chronic problem of water and power shortage for all times to come. However inspite of the dire need for a dam no action has been taken by politicians to solve the problem of water and power shortages. Piles of dead bodies are being deposited in freezing chambers in Karachi which are reported to be stinking due to overloading of freezers. Things have reached a level that can’t await a solution.
KBD has to be built posthaste in a few years as the nation cannot afford to exist under the present conditions. The politicians are to blame as they are responsible for making KBD a victim of politics. Every disaster is described as “beauty of democracy”. In fact democracy in our land has not delivered and people are dying in hundreds each day but nobody is ready to move as if they are in a stupor. The PM appears to be suffering from memory lapse as demonstrated in a recent episode of forgetting the name of ‘Chaman’, a city on the border of Balochistan. He has apparently forgotten the name of KBD which he promised at the time of exploding six nuclear devices in 1998.
DR MUHAMMAD YAQOOB BHATTI
Lahore