PSP to interview educated youths to field them in local bodies polls

Asking the party workers to evolve a comprehensive strategy to participate in the upcoming local bodies elections, Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) Chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal on Thursday said the PSP would introduce and create space for the educated and patriotic youths in its politics so that they could lead Karachi and Pakistan in the future.

He expressed these views while talking to the party’s Karachi Organising Committee (KOC) members at the Pakistan Secretariat. He said the process of conducting interviews of young candidates in this regard would be kicked off soon.

“Karachi has become a hub of complex issues and a loyal and experienced leadership can only steer the metropolis out of crises under the current circumstances and that is none other than Pak Sarzameen Party,” he said.

Kamal, who is also a former mayor of the city, said Karachi had been granting 70 per cent of revenue to the national exchequer, but unfortunately, its significance had caused troubles for it.

He recalled that the city had been influenced by Indian spy agency – the Research and Analyses Wing (RAW) – and its infrastructure and industries were destroyed through its agents for many years to cause irreparable losses to Pakistan.

“Karachi was put into the menace of bloodshed and fire with hatching up conspiracies on the basis of ethnicity,” he said. “At that time, PSP workers and supporters, putting our lives in extreme danger, initiated fight against such anti-state elements and vanished the presence and influence of RAW successfully, once and for all.”

Kamal expressed the hope that the lights and past glory of Karachi would be one day restored. He said the PSP was the only political force that had guts to put Karachi on the track of prosperity, on the basis of the past experience of its visionary and loyal leadership.

The PSP of late has been criticising the federal, provincial and local governments for their failure to protect lives and properties of people. During a recent news conference, Kamal said people had been deprived of basic necessities as the federal, provincial and city governments had failed them.

“The city infrastructure is dilapidated due to consistent bad governance by the provincial government,” he said. Sindh, according to resources, was the richest among the provinces of Pakistan, the PSP chairman maintained. He said despite of that, the living standards of people living in Sindh were the worst.

"We are razing to the ground walls of prejudice and hatred," Kamal said. It is now a mass realisation that politics based on family, ethnicity, and feudalism should not be encouraged anymore, he added. “Politics should be based on service delivery.”

Kamal said the educated youth and politicians with dignified character should be given a chance to steer the country and city out of crises. He deplored the fact that a few families had been ruling over the country for the last many decades, putting the country into crises.

Kamal said Pakistan had been facing the lack of true public leadership and the PSP would fill the gap with encouraging youths, giving them the chance to lead the country.