Water crisis to be on our hands soon

As the minutes tick by and election date draws nearer and nearer, the political temperature of the country is heating up by the day. A cacophony of drivel can be heard throughout the length and breadth of the country. All sorts of accusations and counter accusations are being hurled by the political actors against one another thus making the political atmosphere murkier. The political pundits are making different types of predictions about the possible outcome of the election. The consensus is that no single party would be in a position to form government in the centre or in the province on its own steam. Any one of them desirous to bring in its own prime minister and chief minister would willy nilly have to seek help of other political parties or the independents, provided they win substantial number of seats in the National Assembly.
Bhutto and Sheikh Mujib ur Rehman were lucky in the sense that in the then West and East Pakistan , respectively, they had swept the polls of 1970 and were in a position to form their governments without the aid of any political party.
POSTSCRIPT: The country is heading towards a water crisis and the tragedy is that the last two governments in this country didn’t pay enough attention to it so, on this count, both the PPP and Nawaz League are to be held equally responsible. New Delhi has been blatantly violating the provisions of the Indus Basin Treaty in its bid to turn our lands barren and thus bleed us white economically and our rulers are least bothered by it. They haven’t fought the case of their country forcefully in the concernced international fora nor have they taken adequate steps to utilise the flood water effectively for irrigation. They have also failed to construct enough dams in the country. On the internal front the rulers have also failed to enforce rationing in the water sector. One shudders at the very thought of the impending water crisis which the experts believe would be so severe that it would make the people of this country forget the power outages being experienced by them since long. There is a wisdom in the proverb that a stitch in time saves nine. Since necessary urgent steps have not been taken in the matter the next elected government is going to have a big problem on its hand before long.