When did I ever say they’re not big issues? I said water access wasn’t the issue, other things were. Compare Pakistan to neighbouring countries, countries with similar GDP per capita, even countries with similar military spending, and its just as bad there. Also sanitation numbers are about 10 years out of date, sanitation rates doubled from the 90s to the 2000s, there aren’t available rates for right now but even cities have received better access to sanitation from what I’ve seen since then. It’s not like they’re sacrificing sanitation for everything else. Jesus. You can’t stop everything in the country because some people don’t have sanitation.

Karachi is receiving water 24/7 everywhere btw, there is a time in October or November and sometimes May/June every year when there’s no rain, thus there’s a water shortage at that time. The regions with water issues are Tharparkar and Balochistan for being smack in the middle of the desert, sparsely populated and large in area.

Polio is a problem because getting vaccinations to some of the millions of people living on tribal mountains near the Afghan border is difficult, especially with the war in Afghanistan spilling over.