GAS SUFFOCATION: Unannounced gas loadshedding not only created difficulties, but also led to life-threatening situations. Deaths due to gas suffocation were reported in different parts of the country in the recent past. People must use gas heaters, burners and geysers carefully and make sure that gas leakage does not occur while they are sleeping. It is also the responsibility of gas distribution companies to inform customers about the loadshedding schedule, which will help them turn off their gas equipment and save themselves from any untoward incident.

Azhar Hussain
Karachi

STUDENT CARDS: The students of Turbat University face serious issues while entering the premises as they have not been issued their student identity cards by the university management even though two semesters have already passed. The students are stopped at the entrance and face unnecessary questioning by the security guards. The university administration simply keeps promising the issuance of the cards, but the words are never kept.

Aurangzeb Nadir
Turbat

EDUCATION IN REMOTE AREAS: Education is one of the fundamental rights of every citizen, which makes equal access to education a fundamental right as well. Unfortunately, many remote areas of Sindh are deprived of this right to date. There are only a few schools in such areas that are unable to deliver properly since they have to cater to numbers far beyond their capacity. The government should extend the schooling system to remote areas, too.

Shahnawaz Laghari
Sanghar

THE JUGULAR VEIN: Balochistan, home to the Sui gas fields in Dera Bugti, is the jugular vein of Pakistan in terms of supplying natural gas to a vast majority of the national population. But the province itself faces shortage of gas across the year. Indeed, there are areas in the province that have no gas connections at all. This injustice needs to be done away with.

Shukurullah Azeem
Awaran

Published in Dawn, March 6th, 2023