Bemoaning the lack of a single culture or socio-political aim to bring Pakistanis together to end the perpetual cycle of corruption, nepotism and stagnation is probably the activity Pakistanis indulge in most often. I was talking to SB in Karachi when she told me that they suffered 20-hour-a-day power cuts last summer and were expecting the situation to be worse this year.
My reaction was, if people can’t band together in the face of scorching 40-degree-celsius heat and unreasonably long power cuts, and force the government to improve the situation, then we can just forget about democracy ever working. Thankfully, it appears that is not the case.
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