Law minister assures mayor of assistance in City Council legislation

Karachi Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab held a meeting with Sindh Caretaker Law Minister Muhammad Umar Soomro on Friday to discuss legislation by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) City Council.

The mayor said laws were being made through resolutions in the KMC City Council for the improvement of local government affairs so that better facilities could be provided to the citizens.

The present local government leadership, he said, was making all out efforts to ensure that the city council served as the central platform for the solution of basic problems of the citizens and the development of Karachi.

The process of development of the city through the consultation and guidance of the members of the City Council would continue, Wahab assured Soomro.

The law minister said the caretaker government would assist the KMC if further legislation was needed for the betterment of the city. “The rule of law creates a welfare society. Provision of justice and access to legal aid should be ensured equally for every citizen,” he said.

The mayor said the KMC performed its functions under the Sindh Local Government Act, which lays down policies related to the administrative and financial management of the local government system in the province.

Karachi, he said, was administratively divided into seven districts and 25 towns. The chairman of the union committees established in each town is a member of the KMC City Council and is familiar with the problems of his area, he added.

The KMC had been making all efforts for improvement and development, and work was under way on several major development projects to improve the basic infrastructure of Karachi, Wahab maintained.

He said the KMC had been receiving help and guidance of the Sindh government for the development of the city and it was satisfactory that the provincial government had decided to develop the largest city and economic centre of the country and preferred to solve its problems.