AMID these testing times when millions of people are undergoing unimaginable hardships owing to rains and floods, the role of Pakistani media is highly questionable.
More than half of the country has been directly affected by the natural calamity.
The unusual rains and flooding have taken a heavy toll on people who were already facing back-breaking economic crisis.
The media, amid such a tragic state of af f airs, is busy showing political brawls. It seems to have been flooded by political issues and non-issues.
This at times seems like a tragedy much bigger than what the floods have caused.Thousands of people have been displaced from their native lands. Houses have been washed away in flood. People have been compelled to live under the open skies.
Hundreds of precious lives have been lost in the last couple of months. The death toll may actually rise as the devastation is not over yet. However, the media has become blind to this human catastrophe.
Is the judicial battle of this party against that, or the size of the crowd in this rally or that, or the chances of elections getting held at this time or that more important issues to cover than the battle the masses are waging against gushing water in severalpartsofthecountry? The media needs to reconsider its priorities so that it may actually become the voice of the voiceless, which it claims to be, but is not.
