Yes i agree and what you mention is certainly true. Rule of law is indeed the basic ingredient lacking in Pakistan and i too have always championed that on PDF. However, rule of law is the government's responsibility. What you are saying is that the government is responsible for this disaster...
Pakistanis are good people and they listen and do change if someone guides them. May be they should now vote for someone else. The continuous string of repetitive and negative posts from your side against "Pakistanis" have given me this message
Pakistanis are a bunch like white trash...
you seem to have a great angst against the people of Pakistan.
I know of many émigrés from Pakistan who have this attitude of lamenting the state, blaming it on the Pakistani people's own character, calling It endemically abhorrent, and in that process some became anti-Pakistani. They...
lack of maintenance by the municipal government in Lahore. Therefore the government is responsible.
They are responsible for garbage collection. They are responsible for heeding the people who voted them in and keeping the drains open.
we can charge every household a municipal tax that must be collected by law.
this can be done. Education programs for civic living to be made mandatory in schools like healthy living being taught in schools in the US
Keep clean and recycle should be the motto.
where are the NED engineers of Karachi? Perhaps they can do their country men a favour and migrate back to the country from the United States and strive to help in these problems.
brain drain in Pakistan to me seems a culprit
ma sha Allah excellent post and research Bhatti Sahib. Great perspectives and surprising contrasts between Japan and Lahore/central Punjab.
The Tokyo basin is the biggest alluvial flood plain in Japan also being the biggest populated area. Great Japanese ingenuity. The article talks about New...
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that was a funny comment, but I didn't feel like laughing as millions of people seem to be suffering, hence the army being called in for help as the civil administration seems to be in capable.
We should ask questions. That way answers can be produced.
1) Why haven't there been contingency plans for heavily populated regions of Punjab to safe-guards against floods? Didn't Pakistan learn from the world's worst flood crisis that hit a couple of years ago? Because memories are fresh...
Was this an exceptional single day rain? Because if it wasn't, it is a massive negative point for the civil administration in Lahore. This is a big flood seen in the pictures. Its waist deep and everyone known floods are very destructive and expensive.
The bus shouldn't be driving as its...
This is a big pot-hole. Lahore's soil structure and Lahore's increasing traffic load could have led to this amid the down pouring of the monsoon.
But you are right. This is a matter of design by the civil engineers. Questions must be placed to the engineering contractor and consultancy...
we could be jumping to conclusions. Lahore is a city of 10 million. It could be that most of the city now does have proper drainage 6 years on, and this new pic could just be a single highlighted incident.