Wahab criticising Tessori to cover up his own poor performance: Sattar

By Our Correspondent
April 08, 2025
MQM-P senior leader Dr Farooq Sattar addresses to media persons during press conference, at Bahadurabad Markaz in Karachi on April 4, 2025. — PPI
MQM-P senior leader Dr Farooq Sattar addresses to media persons during press conference, at Bahadurabad Markaz in Karachi on April 4, 2025. — PPI

Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) senior leader Dr Farooq Sattar on Monday said that after almost two years into his term as Karachi’s mayor, Barrister Murtaza Wahab has been unduly criticising Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori to divert the public’s attention away from his own unsatisfactory performance.

Speaking at a press conference, Sattar said Wahab had clinched the mayor’s office in the aftermath of the MQM-P’s decision to boycott the local government elections in the city. He advised the mayor to improve his performance instead of unduly criticising Tessori.

He claimed that Wahab had been unduly occupying the mayor’s office for almost two years, and that the city’s residents are well aware of the extent of the genuineness of the mayor’s mandate.

He also claimed that Wahab showcased development works carried out by the cantonment board alongside Sharea Faisal as his own achievement. Sattar said Tessori continues to serve the city’s people non-stop for up to 18 hours a day, adding that the governor sought philanthropists’ assistance to carry out massive welfare works.

He also said the Pakistan Peoples Party’s Sindh government has been doing nothing to intervene and take corrective steps to prevent frequent fatal road traffic accidents in the city involving heavy motor vehicles.

He claimed that drivers recklessly operating heavy vehicles are addicted to drugs. He said the provincial government should have constituted a probe commission to enquire into such incidents. He said Sindh’s rulers have been maintaining a sorrowfully complete silence about such tragedies.

Sattar said Tessori has been promptly coming to the aid of the victims of fatal road accidents, while the government has been taking no action against the mafias behind the recklessly driven heavy vehicles.

The MQM-P leader said the rulers of the province who have been continuously in power over the past 17 or so years should be held accountable for such grave tragedies in the city.