Veteran actor Bushra Ansari has reached her limit watching Karachi fall apart and this time, she is demanding answers.

In a deeply emotional Instagram video shared on Tuesday, the Karachi-born artist who spent much of her life in Punjab before returning home expressed her sorrow over the city’s long, painful decline.

From mountains of garbage to broken roads and collapsing infrastructure, Bushra Ansari questioned why those in power continue to ignore a city that sustains millions of lives and fuels opportunities for the entire country.

“For 30 to 40 years, we’ve heard the same thing: no one pays attention to Karachi,” she lamented. “Sometimes it’s MQM, sometimes the Peoples Party… Why has no one thought of doing something for Karachi?”

She recalled a Karachi that once existed a peaceful, thriving, beautifully diverse city where Parsis, Hindus, Muslims and Christians lived with pride and harmony. A clean place, free from what she described as “mental pollution”. That Karachi, she said, is now lost.

Her concerns aren’t misplaced. Just this year, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked Karachi 170th out of 173 cities in its Global Livability Index — making it one of the world’s least liveable cities.

The list of crises feels endless:
• severe water shortages
• crumbling roads
• poor infrastructure
• chaotic traffic
• worsening law and order

A city dying a little more each day. Yet, despite the decay, Bushra Ansari highlighted that Karachi’s real strength has always been its people.

“Yes, Karachi is broken, the roads are broken but its people are not,” she said. “Karachiites have always been warm and welcoming.”

She also turned her attention to the rest of Sindh, urging the government to uplift even its most vulnerable communities.

“Karachi is part of Sindh. But look at interior Sindh… their own people, Sindhis, don’t even have slippers. They have nothing in their hands. They are suffering.”

Like countless Karachiites, she is exhausted by promises that never turn into action. Her plea was simple and deeply human: “Why can’t we see change? Please, do something. Until when must we wait? And why?”

She even suggested filing a citywide petition only to stop and ask the most painful question:

“The people responsible are also Karachiites. Do they not love Karachi? When will you fix it?”

Karachi’s suffering is not just political it is humanitarian.  A once-vibrant city, the City of Lights, has been reduced to a dumping ground.

Its residents have been forced to show resilience in the face of conditions that no human being should have to endure: failing infrastructure, mismanaged traffic, unsafe streets.

Through Bushra Ansari’s voice, one truth echoes clearly every citizen of Karachi is hurting as they watch their beloved city fall apart.