Deaths such as that of an eight-year-old Dilbar Ali, who fell into an uncovered manhole in the Korangi neighbourhood of Karachi earlier this week, can no longer be considered individual tragedies but rather a direct continuation of a systemic slaughter brought on by a mix of incompetence and corruption. Ali's death comes less than a month after the death of three-year-old Ibrahim, which saw the mayor and others make several empty promises to address the situation just a few weeks prior. That incident and those promises quickly........

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