Precisely i dont see them thrashing CM punjab on daily basis for acquiring $160 million loan for orange line train for a country that is already in billions of dollars of debt. With 2.3 million children not going to school in punjab most in any province in Pakistan his priority should be giving them free and quality education and get loans for this purpose but instead he's busy making roads, flyovers, underpasses, orange line train while his brother is busy giving metros to Pakistanis
The government(be it of PML-N or any other party) is to blame for things like u mentioned but the people are equally to blame. There is thus tendency among us to vote on the basis of the work we can SEE that some politician did.
Consider this:
- Person A lives in some area where the road by his house is in shambles.
- A politician representing that area, let's call him Crook A, gets that road made right around or slightly before election time.
- Now when election time rolls around Crook A can appeal to Person A to vote for him instead of voting for Crook B. Person would be more likely to vote for Crook A bcuz he benefitted from Crook A.
- Crook A gets elected again and gets to fill his pockets and do a little bit of more work for "show", take pictures, hype it up, etc.
It is this kind of voter mentality that is just as equally responsible. Our politicians neglect working on other crucial tasks if they have nothing to show for it. Our public(a lot of them) votes selfishly in a sense, based on things like I mentioned above or bcuz Crook A shares some ethnic/linguistic/etc commonality with Person A. If the public was informed enough where they will see the bigger picture then politicians will be forced to also look at the bigger picture and work on that if they want to get reelected.
U can see this phenomenon in what PML-N is doing right now. Most of the development is happening in Punjab, which is their voter base so naturally they would like to "show" their "hardwork" to retain those votes. Other provinces get neglected bcuz PML-N isn't likely to benefit(get votes) from Sindh for example.
Punjab is the most populous province and contributes the most in GDP. Also there is an actual need to alleviate traffic and build infrastructure...but even after taking into account all of this there is still an unproportional amount of attention Punjab is getting from the current government and a lot of the money(loans) is being spent on building metros and bridges, which could be better used elsewhere.
