Sir: For the last two weeks, I have been following the news regarding the heatwave and its consequences on the public at large. People have died due to suffocation in this deadly heatwave. Deaths exceeding 1,200 in Karachi alone are deplorable. The federal and provincial governments have blamed K-Electric for all these deaths, citing severe electricity cuts in the city as the main reason for the deaths.It is disheartening to see that whenever a crisis arises; the government does not take responsibility. Rather the Federal and Sindh governments have shifted the entire responsibility for this tragedy on K-Electric by making it a scapegoat to hide their own inefficiencies. What I fail to understand is how K-Electric is solely responsible for these deaths. Why does no one question the ineptitude of the Pakistan Meteorological Department that is responsible for forecasting weather conditions? What about the negligence on the part of those authorities that failed to establish heatstroke centres? These are some of the questions that remain unanswered. Instead of playing the blame game, it is more important to come up with effective measures to avert such tragedies in the future.MADIHA AKHTARVia Email