Brilliant piece from Hanif on deaths in karachi and a different perspective. if you think about it with an open heart, there is some merit in his point. most of those who died are those who had to stay out to work but they could not find a single drop of water. Hanif is saying that it really wasn’t the lack of electricity that necessarily killed these 1,000 people. What killed them was the forced ramadan piety enshrined in our law due to which you cant find a single drop of water available anywhere in the city…all restaurants closed, all coffee shops closed, all dhabas closed, tea stalls closed…and all free water coolers removed. he himself and many of his friends removed the water coolers outside their homes once ramadan started.
kindly ask our middle-class/upper-class and religious hounds to just stand outside for 5 hours and fast… but no, poor laborers and workers shd fast as well as work in 45 degrees