Pakistan, Nov. 12 -- Sindh being in the grip of the self-centered oligarchs and the shortsighted nationalists is engulfed by multiple threats which are progressively renting asunder its political, economic and social fabric and rendering its administrative apparatus dysfunctional. The most disquieting factor is that the informed sons and daughters of the province continue to ignore the impending dangers to the very existence of their land as the second big and the resource-endowed federal constituent of Pakistan. This apathy to their land's growing woes is unprecedented and painful.

Sindh has been politically stagnated since decades. The traditional politicians and the landed gentry have been strengthening their hold on the political pow...