Our unliveable cities

Life isn’t easy in our Pakistani cities, towns and villages. Most of the cities in this country neither have proper infrastructure nor quality educational institutions, and not even adequate healthcare, safety and environmental conditions.

Unfortunately, none of our cities qualifies to be called ‘liveable’ with their heaps of garbage, open gutters, manholes, broken roads, pollution, adulteration, contamination, overpopulation, etc. Above all, there is no justice and no rule of law – but who cares? Our rulers are least bothered to manage and improve our cities, towns and villages on modern city planning, architecture and eco-engineering philosophies because they have settled everything abroad including family members and family business and they come like migratory birds to source out more feed from this country and fly away.

Hashim Abro

Islamabad