Pakistan, Oct. 13 -- Pakistan is choking and this happens not just because of its polluted air, but for decades of indifference. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah's recent remarks cut through the smog to reveal a painful truth: our governments have never really cared about the lives of ordinary people. Policy after policy, promise after promise and all have been crafted for the comfort of the elite, while the rest of the nation gasps for breath, quite literally. When Justice Shah says that everything in Pakistan is designed to please pressure groups and protect industry, he is not exaggerating. The Environmental Protection (EPA), which should be protecting the public, has become a bureaucratic puppet. It approves what it should reject, and it...