THE PPP has been in power in Sindh for the last eight years and every civic amenity in Karachi and Sindh’s interior has deteriorated, as has law and order. If recruitment to civic bodies isnot made on merit and ghost employees continue to wreck and overburden every organisation, then things must collapse. PPP Chairman Bilawal-Bhutto Zardari must devote his energies to setting his own house in order, otherwise very soon there is likely to be a blow-back in Sindh itself. How long can the PPP ride on the Bhutto legacy and bank on Benazir’s martyrdom, without delivering anything? It can meet the same fate in its bastion of power that has befallen the party in the recent Azad Jammu and Kashmir elections.

There is a surplus of employees in the Karachi Water and Swerage Board( KWSB). Yet when a water pipe bursts, it takes days to plug the leak, because the majority of those employed lacks competence to handle the task. Similar is the situation with the Karachi city administration, which is incapable of doing simple tasks such as collecting garbage, Now stinking heaps are seen all over the city, including what were once considered to be posh localities like KDA, PECHS and Mohammad Ali Society.

Cantonment boards of Clifton, Malir and DHA have also been affected. Water does not flow from taps, not because it is not available, but because water supply has been deliberately cut off and diverted to fill water tankers, which have assumed the character of a multi-billion mafia patronised by the Cantonment, DHA and the city government. Time is short for the PPP unless it wakes up and considers elected political office a responsibility to deliver to people, instead of a fiefdom to derive commercial benefits. The PPP must appoint a competent chief minister who can deliver.

Aneela Chandio

Sukkur

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2016