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PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif’s statements about the caretaker government’s inability to manage the rains points to his own government’s ineptness to provide sustainable infrastructures in the last five years. Mind him, the caretaker government has only been in place for approximately a month. Despite motorways being built, civil engineering reports name substandard road materials that caused craters. A shoddy sewerage system and dysfunctional water pumps were also blamed for flooding, posing serious health risks. Even the Lahore Zoo handled the situation better than his government may have, had it still been in power. The blame shifting elucidates a non-serious attitude towards improving the well-being of people and indicates a desire for popularity through exaggerated and rather facetious claims for gaining power.
For our officials, learning from the past is achieved only after several exposures to the same vulnerable situations and sometimes, never. Ostensibly, human neglect was to blame as the animals died due to preventable causes. Unfortunately, 15 individuals who lost their lives to a seasonal rainfall will go down in vain as long as the negligence of the past and future governments will continue to render citizens unsafe.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 5th, 2018.
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