The federal government has released Rs60 million for Defence and Clifton areas that were the worst hit by the 2020 urban floods in Karachi. The Ministry of Maritime Affairs said this in a letter addressed to Defence and Clifton residents on behalf of PTI MNA Aftab Hussain Siddiqui and MPA Shahzad Qureshi. This special grant will be spent in the constituency, particularly on Khayaban-e-Bokhari and surrounding areas, according to the letter. Four RO plants will be installed in these areas too. They will help provide 50,000 gallons of water to the residents. The PTI lawmakers had informed Prime Minister Imran Khan of the destruction caused by the 2020 urban floods in the constit.
PTI wants Minhas to devise tough law and order strategy
Karachi
May 24, 2021
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders have voiced their concerns over street crimes, drug trafficking and robberies allegedly being on the rise in the Clifton and Defence neighbourhoods. In a meeting with Karachi’s new police chief, they called for a tough strategy to maintain law and order in the city.
PTI Karachi President Khurrum Sher Zaman, MPA Shahzad Qureshi, Rabia Azfar and others met Additional IGP Imran Yaqoob Minhas at his office to convey their concerns. The meeting focused on street crime, drug trafficking and other issues, including child protection.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf activist and Sindh Assembly member Shahzad Qureshi has said that Sindh is in a very bad condition in water, health, education and transport sectors. “If the Sindh.
‘Everyone wants to rule over Karachi but not fix its problems’
Karachi
April 28, 2021
An opposition legislator complained in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday that everybody is determined to rule over Karachi but nobody is serious about fixing the problems of the provincial capital.
Participating in the pre-budget discussion in the House, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan lawmaker Mangla Sharma said Karachi has been reduced to ruins owing to the indifference of the rulers. She lamented the situation that work on the Safe City project in Karachi has been pending for the past six years.
Grand Democratic Alliance MPA Nusrat Sehar Abbasi claimed that the provincial government is ineligible, incompetent and corrupt. She also claimed that corruption has become so rampant in Sindh’s governance that corrupt practices are taking place in every department of the provincial government. She said Sindh has been ruined because, according to her, certain corrupt mafias have been backing th
KARACHI: An opposition legislator complained in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday that everybody is determined to rule over Karachi but nobody is serious about fixing the problems of the provincial.