KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has said that the Sindh government does not appear serious about resolving Karachi’s water issue and is instead concentrating on corruption.

Mr Khan, who arrived on a two-day visit in Karachi on Tuesday, was talking to media at the Safoora water hydrant in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.

He said soon people would take to the streets to press the government to resume water supply. The PTI chief said the city was in the shackles of various mafias under the patronage of the government.

PTI chief says Sindh govt is not serious about solving the problem

Depriving people of a basic necessity like water was the manifestation of the government’s incompetency and reflected political support to mafias, he said and threatened to bring people onto the roads to press for the provision of water.

Mr Khan went straight to Darul Uloom Farooqia to condole with the sons of Maulana Saleemullah Khan on their father’s demise. He offered Fateha and praised the late Maulana’s services for Islam. Later, the PTI chief visited the Expo Centre and addressed a seminar. Highlighting the quality of a leader who overcomes his fears, he said that those who feared defeat were cowards and could never become a leader.

Mr Khan said although politics was an important responsibility wherein people reposed trust in their leaders, in this country people didn’t join politics to serve rather they were out to make money from politics.

Recalling the services of the Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital, Mr Khan said the project was completed at a cost of Rs700 million but its annual expenditure on the treatment of the poor and needy was Rs4 billion for which he didn’t need a political office.

The biggest, after Lahore and Peshawar, would be Karachi’s Shaukat Khanum Hospital, he said while announcing its completion in near future.

Terming the hospital his mission and Namal University his passion, the PTI chief said that 90 per cent of students at the institution were studying on scholarship to get a degree of the Bradford University.

Mr Khan said the secret of progress in the West was education as no nation could grow without education.

PTI leaders MNA Dr Arif Alvi, Imran Ismail, Firdaus Shamim Naqvi, Jamal Siddiqui, Faisal Waoda, Haleem Adil Shaikh, Khurran Sherzaman, Dawa Khan Sabir and others were also present.

Published in Dawn February 8th, 2017