Pakistan, Feb. 16 -- It's a pity, surely, that the government is not facilitating a private initiative to set up public toilets, most of them free of cost, across the country. It is unbelievable, really, that a country of 200 million has only about 800 public toilets, half of which at the very least are non-functional. A private initiative by the name of Saaf Baath is now apparently lobbying the government for NOCs in all provinces to set up portable public toilets, only to be charged in select areas considering the footfall, but is falling short of the kind of reception it thought it would get; not the least considering the government's own inability to provide such a basic thing as public toilets.
It turns out that PPP-ruled Sindh, a pro...