As a response to the recent tragedy of a three-year-old child falling to his death in an open manhole, the mayor of Karachi has announced a Rs100,000 monthly fund for Union Committees (UCs) across the city, dedicated to streetlight maintenance and installation or replacement of manhole covers. Mayor Murtaza Wahab claims that this initiative is meant to commence from December and will improve municipal services and infrastructural issues.

But as per the pattern of governance in........

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