Federal govt working to provide modern transport system in Karachi: Zubair

ISLAMABAD: Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair has said that the federal government is working on various sectors, including modern transport system, to facilitate a large number of people living in the mega city of Karachi.

"We have focused on bringing foreign investors, besides local businessmen, to use the opportunity of peaceful environment in Karachi and make investment in different sectors," he said while talking to a private news channel.

He said there were target killings, extortion and other criminal activities cases in Karachi.

Zubair said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government after coming into power in 2013 elections, had focused on Karachi and discussed the matters with all the stakeholders for restoring peace and addressing other problems in this business hub of the country.

The government, he said, had given full authority to Rangers and other law enforcement agencies to launch operation in Karachi without any discrimination. "We never made any interruption in the working of law enforcement agencies regarding the Karachi operation, " he said.

Now, after restoring peace, the focus was given to attract foreign investors besides streamlining the transport and water system for the people of Karachi, he added.

To a question he said that there was a political vacuum in Karachi after rift in the Muttahida Quomi Movement.

To another question, the governor said that federal government had launched many projects in rural Sindh.