CM, mayor on same page over uplift and public issues

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah assured Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar of his support during the latter’s courtesy call at the CM House on Wednesday.

This was Akhtar’s first meeting with Shah since being released from jail and assuming his mayoral responsibilities.

“We are on the same page as far as the city’s development, public issues and its people are concerned,” the CM told the mayor.

Shah said he was born and raised in Karachi, had played on its streets, and was educated at its institutions. “This is my city, and it belongs to me as much as it belongs to others. This city belongs to all of us, and we have to work together for its development, industrialisation and prosperity.”

After his recent release from jail upon acquiring bail in all the cases against him, Akhtar had sought help from the provincial government to devise a plan of action for development and municipal uplift of the city.

“Leaving the National Action Plan and the Karachi operation aside, we are required to see toward development of the city,” the mayor had said last week during the Sindh Assembly session soon after his release.

He had said that there had been implementation on many action plans, but it was high time that a targeted development plan be conceived for the city because its infrastructure was on the verge of destruction while the citizens were facing numerous difficulties.