‘Activate standing committees, PFC in public interest’
PTI MPA stresses inclusion of opposition in Public Accounts Committee for real-time monitoring of govt audit reports
KARACHI:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA and parliamentary leader in the Sindh Assembly Bilal Ahmed Ghaffar has stressed the need to properly activate critical spaces for decision making, such as standing committees and the Provincial Finance Commission, to facilitate the public interest.
He expressed these views while addressing a consultation titled Engagement with Parliamentarians: Optimising Benefits of Public Policy at a local hotel on Tuesday.
The event was organised by Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment (CBE) to create a link between policymakers, academia and civil society, so as to promote the development of legislations for the benefit of the public, particularly in the domains of ecology, climate change, transport, gender, mobility, water and sanitation.
KCF deliberates upon civic problems of Karachi
National
March 7, 2021
Karachi: A seminar was recently organized on “The Priorities & Solution to the Festering Civic Problems of Karachi by the Karachi Citizens’ Forum at PMA Karachi.
Panel of speakers included Crème de la crème of the top most urban planners of the city, Mr. Arif Hasan, Mr. Farhan Anwar, Mr. Muhammad Toheed, former mayor Karachi Mr. Faheem-uz- Zaman, leading economist Mr. Qaisar Bengali, and Dr. Abdul Ghafoor Shoro of KCF.
The distinguished speakers deliberated upon the festering civic problems and presented their priorities & solutions to end sufferings of the people of this megapolis.
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The politics of garbage
The larger problem for Karachi is not how their waste is being handled but rather what happens with it afterwards
KARACHI:
Tiny feet walk through a maze of garbage, wedging tiny hands into the steaming piles rotting trash, searching for salvageable junk that can deemed valuable enough to be sold off. Six-year-old Sumair Khan searches through mounds of garbage everyday that he picks up from houses and then unloads at a nearby garbage dump.
Khan works with his father and two brothers who go door-to-door to pick up garbage in their cart, which has a motorbike attached at one end to carry the garbage to the nearby dumb. Once they have collected the garbage, they lay out and separate plastic, food, and clothes on the cart and then dump the remainder of the trash at a nearby ‘Kachra Kundi,’an unauthorised dumping site. What Khan and his family do is by no means exceptional in Karachi. In fact, such scenes are a common sight in almost every part of the city.