Divided nation.

Byline: FAISAL ANSAR - Karachi.

The worst issue in our country is the division we have in our rows. We as a nation are divided on the linguistic, sectarian, provincial and political basis. We do not need any enemy outside our country as we are enough for each other to give a tough time owing to which all of us are badly suffering but do not realize it. For instance, the federal government wants to build dams but people of Sindh oppose construction of dams primarily because of its location and owing to justified/unjustified apprehensions that Punjab would stop water share of Sindh. Punjab needs to address the apprehensions of people of Sindh and go-ahead to build the dams so that Pakistan could be able to store water as experts have already threatened that in forthcoming years Pakistan could face scarcity of water.

People of Karachi are lamenting these days for cleanliness of the biggest city of the country besides many other issues like choked sewerage lines, dilapidated roads, transportation, drainage system etc. But as the existing provincial government has not been voted by the people of Karachi, the provincial government is giving deaf ear to these issues in the same way when former provincial government of Sindh formed by the votes of people of Karachi had done the same in the areas where they did not have their vote bank in Karachi. This is called tit for tat. The incumbent provincial government...