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| India-Pakistan |
| Political inertia in heat crisis |
| 2015-06-24 |
| [DAWN] EVERYBODY wants to blame someone else -- nobody wants to take any responsibility. The chief minister of Sindh showed up in the provincial assembly yesterday only to demonstrate that he was totally unaware of what has been happening in the quiet provincial capital during the days he was away. Once the peak of the heatwave, that has caused more than 700 deaths in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... alone, appeared to have passed, the chief minister issued instructions to close "offices, schools and colleges". Never mind that it is summer holidays and schools and colleges are already shut. He blamed K-Electric, the city's power company, and its private management for failing to ensure the supply of uninterrupted power during the heatwave, accusing its private management of acting like businessmen, but said nothing about the dismal state of power supply in Sukkur and Larkana, the cities he had just come from, where power riots have been taking place for days and electricity supply is in the hands of state-owned corporations. But Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah is not alone in issuing bizarre instructions and engaging in a blind blame game in the midst of a crisis. As power load-shedding in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa |
| Posted by:Fred |