Karachi should have control over its water and power: Sattar

KARACHI: Dr Farooq Sattar has demanded that the control of Karachi’s water and power should be handed over to the city’s people because they have had enough of being subjected to “injustices”. “We pay the most taxes in the country – 60 to 70 per cent – and even then it is us who have to protest for our due rights,” said the chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) PIB Colony faction. Addressing his group’s protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday, Sattar lamented over the worsening situation of utilities in the metropolis. He said that unless people show their “current” to those responsible for providing them the utilities, nothing can be gained. Making a jibe at his political rivals who have been protesting over the same issue, he said people will not be flattered by their false claims again. Particularly mentioning the name of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Shahbaz Sharif, he said people will not believe the Punjab chief minister because, he claimed, his party, being in power in the Centre, is among those responsible for the situation that the city faces now. Sharif visited Karachi on Sunday and held meetings with leaders of the Awami National Party and the MQM-P’s Bahadurabad faction.