THE next general election is round the corner. Starting from sitting governments in the centre and the provinces and going back to the mid-1980s, our experience tells us that almost all previously elected civilian and military governments showed complete indifference to environmental challenges that over 200 million Pakistanis face.

Perhaps now is the time to tell our political parties, leaders and opinion-makers to ‘do more’. It is an appeal to the electorate to carefully evaluate how many political parties incorporate and prioritize such environmental issues in their election manifestos, and what strategies they formulate to overcome human miseries.

We wish to see a clean, green, healthy and environment-friendly and prosperous Pakistan.

Irshy Pai

Jacobabad

Published in Dawn, May 22nd, 2018