Iranian condemned a terrorist attack in Quetta in southwest Pakistan In a statement released on Friday, Qassemi offered his condolences to the Pakistani people and government over the tragic incident that led to the killing of at least 16 people and injuring of 30 others. “The security and stability of neighbors is very important to the Islamic Republic of Iran and we hope that the Pakistani government and nation would thwart conspiracies of enemies of the region by preserving their unity and vigilance,” he said. At least 16 people were killed when a powerful bomb ripped through a vegetable market in Quetta early Friday, officials said. At least nine of the dead were Hazaras, a Shiite Muslim minority group that has repeatedly been the target of extremists. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which also injured at least 30 people, some of them critically. But Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned militant Sunni group, has often carried out attacks against Hazaras in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan Province, according to media reports. All the OIC members also have condemned this dastartadly attack.
Karachi emerged as the most modern, a metropolis with dazzling colonial buildings, commercial centers, big hotels, and well-designed residential areas that rivalled Bombay along the same coast toward the East. The sea and clean beaches added to the natural beauty of this city, then its beauty vanished.
The decline of Pakistan is not just economic, political, and social, it is total, and it strikes one when entering any small, medium, or large city, including the once ‘Islamabad the beautiful.’ In every city, traffic is a mess, there are encroachments on the roads, occupation of public lands and shanty towns, often on public lands, along streams, railway lines and green areas.
The reasons for this urban decay are known to all in Pakistan from the masses to people of wealth, privilege and power. The latter are the ones responsible for Pakistan’s urban problems because of their insatiable greed for wealth accumulation, through syndicates of land developers, politicians and bureaucrats. Together, and for mutual benefit, they have converted agricultural lands around Pakistan’s cities into housing colonies. This has become the biggest business where most black money is parked.
And then the judiciary looks on like an spectator, the powerful institutions included. There is now hardly any state institution that doesn’t have a series of housing colonies to benefit employees, but it is no secret that most of the owners who build houses are second buyers.
The youngsters think there is no chance of the coming of that beauty of old times, so they are leaving for better prospectss in hordes.
