THIS is apropos of M. A. Hakeem's letter, 'Sukkur city roads in bad shape' (Jan 4).

Unfortunately for some time this once beautiful city has been completely ignored by the very people who are made in charge of its civic affairs.

As has been rightly pointed out by Mr Hakeem, the entire road network is bad shape.

Gutters are flowing into houses of low-lying areas where most of the poor and middle class people live and multi-storey buildings have mushroomed with the active blessing of its nazim.

One such building, built a few months back, has collapsed due to substandard material used in its construction.

This horrible incident has taken many innocent lives.

Although Sukkur is located on the bank of the River Indus, its residents have no potable drinking water available and they are forced to drink unhygienic water that often results in spread of hepatitis C.

For all these miseries, it is none but the civic government which is responsible.

The provincial government should hold an impartial inquiry into the matter.

Qazi Bashir Ahmed

Old Hala