Pakistan, Jan. 20 -- When the elections were announced for Feb 8 and some lodged petitions to postpone them for various reasons, a large majority in the country is worried more about its living conditions, which are worsening with time. It's disheartening for any sensitive and thinking citizen to see our country sinking economically and mouths to feed rising phenomenally.

The first step the government that comes into power takes is to increase the prices of utilities to meet the expenses of its huge bureaucracy, not to mention a large number of ministers, ministers for state and advisers. They all live in style and not as citizens of a poor state. Will the new government reduce the size of the unnecessary large bureaucracy, its official ...