I HAIL from Hyderabad, which is about 150km from Karachi. The residents of the city face loadshedding for up to 12 hours every day, but the mainstream media seems to focus solely on Karachi and its problems as if the rest of the Sindh does not exist.

My family and friends living in Larkana, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur and other cities are all suffering from frequent power outages, but none of the so-called popular television channels or newspapers raises the issue. This feels like discrimination, especially because we live in a respectable residential area that is at a stone’s throw from the three main universities of the city.

Regional channels are doing a great job in this regard, but their factual reports are drowned in the noise generated by the big cities. This needs to be rectified.

The print and electronic media should provide equal coverage to the rest of the province so that the government may be forced to find solution to address the issues being faced by people across the province.

Waqas Ali
Hyderabad

Published in Dawn, July 31st, 2022