LETTER: That Karachi has been reduced to a village there is no doubt about it. The Supreme Court of Pakistan has rightly expressed its anger at the dismal situation of cleanliness in a city of teeming millions, stating that the Sindh government has "completely failed" to deliver in the province.

According to media reports, a hearing into the nullahs encroachment case held the other day at the Karachi registry of the apex court, the government officials had no plausible answers to the questions raised by a bench headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmad who told the advocate general Sindh that the provincial government had "turned entire Karachi into a goth. The entire city is filled with filth and sewerage water. Mosquitoes, flies and germs are everywhere. People are walking on stones [to cross sewerage water]".

The apex court has certainly tried to shame the officials representing or heading various departments into improving their performance. The Sindh government in particular must pull its socks up without any further loss of time.

SHAHZAD ASGHAR (KARACHI)

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