Beware of Plague

Our cities have rats as big as cats. They freely bite customers in congested and suffocated markets. Our cities are some of the dirtiest in the world. Even our hospitals have cats, rats, cockroaches and bedbugs, and stinking bathrooms. With so many rats going around we may be headed for the bubonic plague. India had a plague epidemic a few years ago.

Our rulers do not seem to know that gated residential colonies and high walls of palaces offer no defence against plague epidemic. More than half of the population of Europe died of the plague in the 14th and 15th centuries. There was no distinction between high and low in these deaths. In case the plague hits Pakistan there will be many deaths before we get prepared to meet the challenge. The rulers do not know how to keep our cities clean.

Brig (r) Usman Shah

Rawalpindi