In Pakistan, development is often measured by the grandeur of new projects. Motorways stretch across provinces; hospitals rise in big cities and IT parks promise digital futures. These ventures are celebrated with ribbon cuttings and televised ceremonies, symbols of progress meant to inspire national pride. Yet beneath this spectacle lies a quieter, more troubling reality. Our infrastructure, once built, is left to decay. The silence beneath cracking concrete is not just physical. It is institutional, cultural, and moral.
Infrastructure does not maintain itself. Roads fracture under the weight of neglect, water systems corrode in silence and medical equipment falters without care.
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