Where is good governance?

There should be no doubt, whatever, in anybody’s mind that of all the provinces of the country, Sindh is the most badly managed province , particularly , Karachi. Its law and order had already gone to the dogs since long and the provincial government was left with no option but to hand it over to the Rangers to set it right. The recent heavy downpour and the resultant flash floods exposed its tall claims of good governance which its rulers have been making for about a decade since they are in power. There was a complete breakdown of civil administration during the recent rains that lashed Karachi and Hyderabad. The Sindh government was nowhere to be seen during the flash floods. The new CM who had taken over reins of his office only a couple of hours before the devastating rains was caught offguard by this Act of God and he looked dumbfounded and helpless to tackle the situation.
Let us admit that Karachi hasn’t become unmanageable in a trice. It has had a history of more than a decade during which its rulers have been running it like their fiefdom. Excessive politicisation of almost all state institutions has completely eroded the writ of the state. Nobody takes the law and order agencies seriously in Sindh and, more often than not, they are taken for a ride by various mafias which had the full backing of political overlords of the province. Karachi is a heavily weaponised city which has more weapons than the entire FATA taken together. It would take some time before the Rangers would be able to cleanse it of heavy weaponry despite the fact that a well planned military operation is underway in the Sindh capital.
The municipal institutions of Sindh have also let the people down during recent floods in Karachi. After a downpour of only a couple of hours, Karachi and Hyderabad recently looked like a veritable pond. Their roads turned into rivers. . Rain water entered into the houses and the under passes on the roads were totally flooded and blocked by the rain water. The roads would not have flooded if the road engineers had provided proper drainage system along with them and the sanitation staff had cleaned the nullahs regularly.