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, this is not about security lapses or healthcare negligence.

This is also not about street crime or honour killings.

This time it is about what’s going on on our roads, and how no one, once again, seems to care.

Also read: Highway tragedy: Bodies burnt beyond recognition

A petrol station employee from Shikarpur had come to Karachi to interview for a job with the Sindh Police. On his way back home in a passenger coach, his biggest concern may have been whether he gets the job or not – he may have been going over his performance in his mind when the crash occurred.

He did not consider a fate far worse than rejection awaiting him.

According to his friend, Saleemullah was one of the ill-fated passengers on the bus that collided with an oil tanker on Saturday on the National Highway. Sixty-two people were killed – burnt beyond recognition.

A nine-member family wiped out.

A woman with the remains of six children stuck to her – gone.

Accepting the death of a loved one is hard enough – trying to identify their charred remains must be far, far harder.

But, perhaps, what may be the hardest thing to deal with is accepting the fact that no one will be held accountable for this preventable road accident – until eventually, it becomes a matter of ‘God’s will’.

People look at the wreckage of the bus that collided with a tanker on the outskirts of Karachi. — DawnNews screengrab

While fighting terrorists and curbing deaths caused by them may be too complicated for our government to manage, enforcing transport laws should really not be that hard.