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Sindh Governor Imran Ismail speaks at the Safe Karachi conference. Photo by writer
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail has said that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have their own ways of looking at things that may keep projects in Karachi moving ahead.
He was speaking at the ‘Safe Karachi’ conference organised by the Corporate Pakistan Group at a local hotel on Sunday to create awareness about the challenges faced by Karachi and focus on the key problems faced by the city’s administration, residents, service providers and businesses.
“A Karachi I grew up in was a clean and vibrant city. It was a different city. People used to come from all over the county to see Karachi. Then we also saw Karachi nose diving. There were thefts happening here, murders happening here. The lawlessness saw the departure of industry from here. Big business houses also left Karachi,” the governor said.
Sindh to tax people for garbage collection, expand SSWMB
The board was working in only 4 Karachi divisions SAMAA | Sohail Rab Khan - Posted: Jun 1, 2021 | Last Updated: 5 hours ago SAMAA | Sohail Rab Khan Posted: Jun 1, 2021 | Last Updated: 5 hours ago
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Its name was Sindh Solid Waste Management Board. Sindh. But the joke was that it collected garbage from only four parts of Karachi â one city in the province.
Now, seven years since it was created, the chief minister
and his government have realized that they actually need to get the board to
collect garbage from the entire province.
The writer is a Karachi-based academic and researcher.
INSTEAD of a ‘politics of control’, the residents of Karachi desire a ‘politics of performance’. This approach is nowhere in sight. The city is managed along tightly contested administrative boundaries. A key component in this respect is development jurisdiction.
To consolidate and promote urban development, the Karachi Development Authority was formed in 1957. Its jurisdiction extended to all of Karachi minus the federally controlled locations. In 1993, the Sindh government carved out the Malir and Lyari development authorities to ‘effectively serve’ the needs of underdeveloped areas in these locations. The core purpose of separating LDA and MDA was to exercise control over the vast land reserves that existed in these two territories and determine the land supply regime for them.