Around ten million people are directly and severely affected in the twenty-one districts of Sindh province due to never-stopping heavy rains and floods caused by the breaches in the drains and canals. Similarly, more than ten million other population of the province has become indirectly affected or that would become even more affected due to food insecurity, paucity of milk, butter, cereals, vegetables and fruits because the affected twenty districts are considered as the “ supply storage” of the province. Nothing is left in the affected districts. Near and dear ones are gone/departed/ dead. Millions of houses destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of livestock are killed. Crops standing on millions of acres of land are destroyed. Roads are inundated. Bridges are broken and there is no electricity.
Much more is said in the press releases of the relevant provincial and federal government organizations but regrettably nothing is being done practically to save the lives of the victims. All the victims have contracted skin disease. So far more than 350 people are reported dead. Officials deputed in the affected districts are wasting their times in fun and frolic and giving relief packages to their own un-affected relatives. Doctors and paramedical staff is not visible anywhere. Sindh is flooded. Sindhi is sinking. Sindh is drowned. I can make no explanation but Corruption ( of our past and present rulers) Corruption ( of our callous bureaucrats of revenue, irrigation etc.) corruption (of irrigation, WAPDA engineers and technocrats) have ruined Sindh and the rural life and economy. All those corrupt, callous and incompetent officers and technocrats who made corruption worth millions of rupees but did not utilize even ten percent of the allocated funds for the construction of roads, canals, water channels, water courses and drains. All those who are involved in the defective and disastrous schemes such as Left Bank Outfall drain ( LBOD) and Right Bank Outfall Drain ( RBOD) may be put on trial and and hanged to for their heinous offense against the ten million people in the worst affected districts of the province.
Where are the so-called national NGOs who hold seminars and workshops about caring and saving humanity in the air-conditioned rooms of five stars hotels in the mega cities? Where is the vibrant Civil Society? Where is the National Rural Support Program (NRSP) and Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund ( PPAF)? People are virtually dying of hunger. People have no water to drink and perform religious rituals of their near and dear ones and to bury them. The incompetent and corrupt revenue and other provincial and federal government officials are enjoying the ruthless death of the victims. From the prevalent doom and destruction it appears, perhaps, that all concerned have decided to drown and decimate the Sindhis.
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