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Much of Pakistan's problems are solvable, no doubt. What is lacking is the will and the resources. In other words, Pakistan can make a great knife, if somebody gives it a blade and a handle.

Such stopgap measures stop soon after the media blitz fades and there are no ongoing funds to keep the projects running. Soon the situation is back to its usual deteriorating trends. This will likely not be any different.

Four plants each producing about 2,000 liters per hour are going to serve one million people. At what cost can this be scaled up to provide water to the tens upon tens of millions of people?

Incorrect. Sindh was part of the Bombay Presidency (taken over by the Crown as part of the East India Company Act of 1784) from its annexation in 1843 till 1935. It was the Government of India Act of 1935 that created a separate province of SIndh with Karachi as its capital only from 1936 till 1947.

It will be interesting to see how many will try to deflect blame compared to those who would look at the responsibility of implementing a meaningful solution to the problem. Quite telling in fact. (I do know my people! :D )

Not anymore than @T-123456 actually, and only because he did it first in this thread (see above) and only as a joke. The rest of my post has a serious question in it.

Can I blame you of cruelty now? :D Edit: On a serious note, we can all point the blame at our favorite targets, but whose responsibility is it to begin solving the problem? Right now?

The availability of water in Pakistan has fallen by almost an order of magnitude since independence. The investments needed to halt, let alone reverse that trend, given the numbers, is simply beyond its financial ability, and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. A lack of water is...

Let's define what would suffice as meaningful first. Is it that there will be clean drinking water for all children and roosters alike in the next decade? Not a chance. Is it that the water will be clean enough to make them sick, but not kill them, in the next decade? Possibly.

Any hope created by lying is a false hope. It merely prolongs the agony and is a defense mechanism to avoid meaningful change.

Incorrect. I am merely honest. I can afford to tell it like it is, not as how we wish to see reality.

Just one of the many bitter fruits of allowing the mixing of matters of religion with matters of State.

Only after talking about the weather and the mehngai, and before moving on to the next planned trip abroad.

Eh? Weren't land reforms declared to be UNislamic?

So what? It is only a rooster. Pakistan's high and mighty have not been moved to do anything even after self-immolation brought on by extreme prolonged deprivation. Nothing will happen now either, nor is the system at any risk for the foreseeable future. A story I narrated elsewhere may be...

Those ones that boldly advertise their "patriotic" return are the ones that fail to flourish in an environment where merit rules generally, or are among the well-connected groomed abroad to benefit from their lineage.

... or they leave the country, if a chance arises, to flourish elsewhere. Yes, it works very well for those who have designed it and keep it running exactly according to their requirements. (Just like another forum that shall remain unnamed. :D )

Word of the Day: WHATABOUTERY. :D

Agreed! In addition to the above, haven't I also said that the Pakistani system works perfectly according to its design?

The cabal consists of the senior military leadership. They are the only ones who matter, and the only ones with the real power, the present farcical setup included. That is the truth, bluntly put. like it or not, or try deny it as much as one likes.