It is fact that the government, politicians, military, media, judiciary, NGOs and general citizenry are being overwhelmed with the dangers confronting Pakistan. These include electricity shortage, water scarcity, gas loadshedding, energy deficiency, traffic jams, corroded infrastructure, land grabbing, underemployment, rampant corruption, political instability, a negation of law and order, religious extremism, terrorism, target killing, ethnic rifts, feudalism, inflation, illiteracy, sectarianism, escalating foreign/local debt, provincial disharmony, environmental degradation and social frustration. As a result of the above situation killing, chaos and hopelessness have become the order of the day and our law enforcing agencies are unable to arrest the culprits, who are playing havoc with human life and the state of law and order. As a result of this situation, hardly a day passes by without the news of ruthless murder, armed decoities, highway robberies, discovery of dead bodies mercilessly cut to pieces packed in sacks, gang rape of women, kidnappings for ransom and other inhuman acts do not make it to national headlines. Casual attitude of the government, the inefficiency of police in apprehending the culprits and the lenient punishment awarded by the courts are main causes of unprecedented wave of crime. That is why in Pakistan crime flourishes. S. A. KHOKHAR, Lahore, July 29.