Hyderabad, Feb. 26 -- Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Somewhat similar is how most ruling classes across the planet, especially in the Third World countries, behave.

At a time when Pakistan's largest metropolis, Karachi, and three of its provinces Sind, Punjab, and Baluchistan are facing acute water scarcity due to drought, and Lahore the second most populated city has just overcome the worst smog throughout the winter the powers that be is busy holding the Day-Night Champions Trophy tournament under floodlight. How criminally insensitive can the rulers be in a country that is confronting a chronic electricity shortage?

Why just blame Pakistan, the situation in other densely populated and poor South Asian countries is equally grim yet n...