Karachi is not the Karachi which it used to be in the late 1950s when the water tankers of its municipal corporation used to sweep its roads with water after midnight every day which gave a clean look to its roads the following morning. Its population has increased by leaps and bounds but no body ever thought of keeping a lid over new settlements. When the civic demands of the population of a city outgrow the capacity of its municipal corporation to meet them the obvious result is chaos which is exactly what has been happening to the capital city of Sind for quite sometime now.
Karachi’s roads turned into veritable canals recently after heavy downpour resulting into colossal damage to its infrastructure and exposing the sub-standard material used in its construction. Had Karachi’s civic body not allowed construction of houses in the water beds of various nullahs which caused obstruction to the natural flow of water in case of heavy rains and floods, damage would not have been caused to private and government property at the hands of the water blocked by these constructions.
There is no denying the fact that all the rulers who were in the saddle in Sind during the past ten years or so are collectively responsible for this predicament of Karachites. It is their collective failure to deliver. Not only do the inhabitants of this city , which is the commercial hub of this country , are deprived of basic civic facilities like potable water and Medicare , their life and property is also insecure at the hands of the criminals. The highly-politicised police force cannot maintain law and order on its own and has to rely on the Rangers for the purpose because most of the recruitment in it has been made on political basis and not on merit.
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