Karachi JI chief lambastes Sindh government, KMC for city’s dilapidated infrastructure

Karachi Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Monem Zafar has criticised the Sindh government and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation for not improving the dilapidated infrastructure of city and said both provincial and local governments and its officials have become a liability for the city as they have proved themselves incompetent.

Addressing a press conference at the Idara Noor-e-Haq, the Karachi JI headquarters, on Sunday, he said Karachi had become a city of problems under the rule of the

Pakistan Peoples Party.

He highlighted the broken infrastructure, roads network, electricity and water crises among other issues.

He said that instead of resolving the burning issues of Karachi, the Sindh chief minister was saying that the road network in Karachi could not be repaired because of the decaying sewerage system.

The JI leader also quoted the Sindh local government minister as saying that the infrastructure in Karachi could not sustain rains.

He remarked that when the city’s mayor was also neglected by the CLICK authorities, it seemed that he was also helpless when it came to the city’s affairs.

He said the entire city had been ruined due to the leaders’ incompetence.

Those who had captured the mandate of the city were now responsible for resolving its issues but they were either reluctant to do that or were incapable of doing so, Zafar added. He said the water crisis in Karachi was artificial and added that on the one hand, the Hub Dam was overflowing, but on the other hand, several areas in Karachi had been deprived of water.

He said the tanker mafia was flourishing in the mega city at the cost of the water supply system.

The JI leader also commented on the issue of mass transit system and said that the ruling regime had mocked the residents of Karachi in the name of the Orange Line project.

To add insult to the injury, the people of Karachi had been deprived of utility services and were forced to suffer excessive gas and electricity bills, Zafar said.

He lamented that the law enforcement agencies had totally failed in the megalopolis as over 400 innocent citizens lost their lives in street crimes during the past eight months.

Against this backdrop, he said the JI was pursuing a countrywide membership campaign. He asked the citizens to become a part of the JI so the unjust and incompetent rulers could be given a final blow.