KARACHI, Aug 29: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has said that law and order situation in Karachi is much better as compared to the past and it is for this reason that foreign investors have started arriving here.

He said that six international companies had shown interest in the mono-rail project and they would not have come, if the law and order situation had not been improved.

The Nazim was speaking at the inauguration of Karam Ilahi Hospital in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Thursday evening.

Although 14 million people were living in Karachi, many other mega cities of the world had greater number of crimes than Karachi, he remarked. However, he said, Karachi particularly had been made a target by the Western media.

Appreciating the efforts of administration for establishing a hospital in private sector, Mr Khan said that field of education and health should not be made a source of income but to serve the people because these two facilities were out of the reach of a large segment of society.

The government was not in a position to provide these facilities within its limited resources and for this reason, private institutions were set up, he added. However, he said, the private organizations should work with the spirit of Khidmat-i-Khalq so that the poor could also get medical facilities. He urged philanthropists to help the government in establishing hospitals for the poor.

Mr Khan pointed out that the city government was folowing four principles — honesty, responsibility, merit and transparency— and there could be no compromise on these principles, which had been showing positive results.

MNA Asadullah Bhutto and some officials of city government were also present on the occasion.—APP/PPI