There were some people who had pinned great hopes that with the change in guard at Karachi there would be an overall improvement in governance matters of Sindh. Syed Murad Ali Shah has been in power for about three months now but one doesn’t see any worthwhile difference anywhere. The media shows him to be extremely active on all those fronts which have a direct bearing on the life of the common man but it seems that there is no follow-up action on his directives which are not translated into action. The trickle-down effect, so to say,of his directives is sadly missing. The municipal administration of Sindh which had touched its nadir during the long spell of chief minister ship of Syed Qaim Ali Shah refuses to show any sign of improvement. The sectarianism and target killings are back again. The recent sectarian killings in Karachi do not bode well for the law and order of the city. Road transport has gone from bad to worse. To cut a long story short, things stand where they were when the former CM had stepped down in favour of the present tenant of his office. Karachi was once such a clean city that its roads were washed with water after midnight by KMC. It enjoyed communal harmony and the Parsi and Christian community of the city contributed a great deal in its educational and health sectors by running many quality schools and dispensaries. There was compete harmony among the people belonging to various parts of the country who have made Karachi as their home and who have been contributing their bit in the development of its economy.
Like the Sharif brothers in Panjab the Bhutto family has been in power in Sindh for a fairly long time now. It must, therefore,take the flak of mismanagement in Karachi and elsewhere in Sindh. It would be miracle if Karachi again becomes a peaceful city that it was before 1970 but miracles don’t happen frequently.
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