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This refers to the letter ‘People’s power’ by Naeem Sadiq. It is indeed shameful that the entire nation had to observe two distinctly different, but regretful, incidents which...
Malika, an elephant at the Safari Park, Karachi, is suffering from a painful foot disease. The elephant remains locked up in a narrow, cemented cell for 20 hours each day. Out of these 20 hours, the...
Symptoms vs root cause We are rightly shattered when we look around and find that a lot of essentials of life and daily consumption are either not available or not working or too painful to have. We find ways to dodge the systems and continue with our daily lives but the weight of injustice and inequality intensifies and becomes unbearable. So much has gone wrong in governance, politics, economy and physical environment that we are unable to fathom and tabulate its consequences. It has become a fight for survival from day to day for the common man. The intelligentsia, journalists, writers and the NGOs keep the media saturated with the symptoms and wounds of the society. Rarely one finds a critical look at the root causes or solutions. Symptoms are sensational so they make the headlines. The result is crisis management, inappropriate solutions and mostly Band-Aid. Just look at the disastrous decay of public sector institutions like PIA, Railways, the educational and healthcare institutions, the Steel Mills, insecurity, upsurge of crime and corruption in every department. The problems are complex and the list is long. This article is an attempt to look at how we arrived at such a situation. The writer has identified some fault lines that afflict our beloved homeland and would like to share (one of the major fault lines) with the readers.