Sir: With the PPP co-Chairman holding a meeting of his ruling party in connection with the reshuffling in the Sindh cabinet in Dubai, it has become clear that Karachi has lost its status of capital of Sindh. Our forefathers struggled against foreign rule on the grounds that the fate of the local people is decided in England and Delhi in the case of the British and emperors of Delhi respectively. We fought legal and armed battles against foreigners because they looted our resources. True, but the British put in place durable infrastructure and modernised different fields of life. Our local rulers, instead of improving infrastructure, destroyed whatever the foreign rulers had put in place and got loans to be paid by the public, wasted these on their luxurious lifestyles, and took the remaining to foreign lands.The staunch supporters of democracy have been put in a very precarious position. The rulers have been insulting the mandate of the people and abusing the cherished institution of democracy since decades. Zardari has presented such a model that the common men and even educated lot get infuriated at the mention of democracy. Can we demand the degenerated lot of the PPP leaders to come to their senses? No, they are in their full senses. They think no power on earth or from heaven can hold them accountable. Now the voters from Sindh have to awake up from the drugs administrated by the PPP for decades in the shape of emotional slogans like martyrdom, sub-nationalism, exploitation by Punjab, victimisation by the judiciary, pulling of strings by the establishment, etc. The voter and civil society are justified in retorting that despite all fabricated odds mentioned above, why are the financial health of the ruling elite and their power not affected?GULSHER PANHWERJohi