PBIF chief demands accountability of those who destroyed Karachi

KARACHI: Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum President Mian Zahid Hussain has said that the Center, the province and the city administration have been engaged in a struggle to get hold of Karachi which has damaged the city beyond repair while the political struggle has made the life of the people miserable. He said Karachi was the financial, commercial and industrial capital of Pakistan which had been ignored for decades.

Karachi had been contributing 67 percent of the total revenue, and it should get due attention, and provision of water, electricity and gas in the city should be ensured, he said. Mian Zahid Hussain said that those behind the destruction of the city should be held accountable as the incompetence of important departments, pathetic infrastructure, rampant corruption, street crimes and other issues had made it impossible for the people to live in this mega-city.

He said that the K-Electric, the Water Board, the KMC, the Building Control Authority and other institutions had become totally dysfunctional. The rains had exposed all the departments concerned while long durations of load-shedding had taken a toll on everything.

Industries had been deprived of electricity, gas, and water while streets and roads lying submerged in rain and gutter water. There were no doctors and medicines in hospitals, and there was no system of spraying against insects and germs to save lives of the people. Roads, pipelines, bridges and other infrastructure in the industrial areas had collapsed, and most of the development works appeared on paper only.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020