Re: Comparing NYC & Lahore : Rain & Flood
Agreed.
These people are elected to provide good governance to facilitate long and short term solutions, not to do ‘charity work’ for the cameras so the images could be used to lure the ‘poor and educated’ voters for the next election. This is effectively the third flooding under Showbaz Sharif’s long and ‘experienced’ reign, and he’s an utter fool for thinking that people will be fooled once again by his desperate and staged photo ops. The facade of his so called good governance is totally exposed. You cannot fool the masses all the time, just because your followers are poor and educated, doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to feel angry and frustrated and betrayed!
These media friendly ‘flood relief’ work is simply not good enough! It is imperative that people start holding these crooks accountable and ask that why on earth they failed to implement the findings of previous flood commissions. Why despite all the powers and hefty budget, a half decent water management system isn’t in place, despite the repeated flood disaster. Just because there aren’t commissions and perks and crass in your face publicity that you get from metro buses, these brothers think there is no point in devising a proper drainage system, creating an effective rescue team, building smaller and nation wide water reservoirs. These wretched oligarchs only know how to serve their own interest.
A country like Pakistan where widespread material devastation, complete loss of livelihoods and deaths caused by flood is becoming annual occurrence, I fail to see the logic behind still drooling over these failed politicians and hushing people who want more accountability and efficiency from these vultures.