January 23, 2006	Monday	Zilhaj 22, 1426

KARACHI, Jan 22: Ghinva Bhutto, Chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party-Shaheed Bhutto, has said that problems being faced by the poor and those relating to katchi abadis cannot be resolved unless people are transferred powers and the bureaucracy is made their subservient.

She was addressing residents of the settlement, established for the affectees of the Lyari Expressway project, at Hawksebay after listening to their problems relating to potable water, education, health and transport facilities.

She warned legislators that people would dislodge them from assemblies if they failed to address the problems being faced by the downtrodden, including residents of katchi abadis. She particularly stressed on legislation to regularize katchi abadis and provision of all basic amenities to their residents.

She deplored the United States for resorting to bombing on Pakistan’s soil after ruining Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it was planning the same kind of operation against Iran, she said, and slammed the rulers in Islamabad for keeping silence even over violation of Pakistan’s borders.