Who is responsible?

E-Paper | June 13, 2026

AS I moved from Multan to Lahore for my university admission, I was shocked to find out that most of the electric wires and iron poles provided for trains to run on electricity were missing. Owing to the electricity shortage, the system was not working. But should this national asset really meet this horrible end?

Millions and millions of rupees had been used up to install this infrastructure. May be in a few years we will compensate our electricity shortfall. Shall we again inject millions of rupees into the system?

Who is responsible for the loss: the ministry of Pakistan Railways? Or is it the respective districts’ bureaucrats or the police? I hope the authorities concerned will wake up and check the loss.

Dr BASHERA DILDAR Multan

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baseer

Sep 23, 2012 05:59pm

nach na jane angan teda. for all our(muslim) problems someone is to blame except us.

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manan

Sep 23, 2012 06:43pm

people of pakistan responsible for this.because people elected everything like goverment ,authorities , police

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Humanist

Sep 23, 2012 10:08am

Western Democracy is a curse of mismanagement

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Agha Ata

Sep 23, 2012 12:49pm

The attitude of the whole nation (I should have used the word "mob" and not "nation.") is responsible.

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KCK

Sep 23, 2012 08:54pm

Who do you think have taken away the electric wires and poles?. People wo are living in Pakstan may have made some money out of the public property. The law and order situation is not good and there is no hope of its improvements so long people vote the same people in power.

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gangadin

Sep 23, 2012 02:20pm

Complain to US or UK embassy in Islamabad or may be set up a UN Commission to investigate and fix the problem. May be Mullahs can volunteer as labor force. You have several choices but just don't do it yourself.

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Phil McQueen

Sep 24, 2012 02:19am

dont worry. In few years you will not have trains.

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s patel

Sep 23, 2012 01:25pm

Do you think we in S Asia were better before western democrasy came ?

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