Majority welcomes demand of handing over Karachi to Army, says Teli

KARACHI: Businessmen Group (BMG) chairman and former president of Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry (KCCI) Siraj Kassam Teli has said the task to rebuilt infrastructure has to be immediately given to NDMA and FWO.

He said sufficient funding by the federal and provincial governments must also be made available all the time for this particular purpose so that the entire infrastructure of the city including roads and sewerage lines could be rebuilt and the garbage could also be cleaned once and for all while all the political parties must jointly devise some kind of an effective mechanism that ensures sustainable cleanliness all over Karachi.

Teli said an overwhelming majority have supported and praised his statement of handing over Karachi to Pakistan Army for the next five years to rebuilt Karachi's infrastructure while only a few misunderstood this statement, they should know that I am a born Karachiite and a Memon and more Sindhi than anybody else in this province.

"There is no political angle in my statement and our only intention is to sincerely raise voice for the betterment of Karachi which can only be done by Pak Army as all the political parties, who remained in power during the last 20 to 25 years, did nothing for the largest city of Pakistan and they are fully responsible for ruining the city's infrastructure and intensifying hardships for Karachiites," Siraj Teli said.

Teli further pointed out that the miserable state of Karachi's infrastructure can be gauged from the fact that excluding the main roads, all other roads within the whole city and also within the jurisdiction of all seven industrial zones of Karachi, particularly Site area, are in an awful state and almost inexistent. It is also a matter of concern that the Board meetings of Site Limited, which is responsible for maintaining the infrastructure of the largest industrial zone, were not taking place.

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