KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Isla­mi on Friday called City Mayor Wasim Akhtar’s 100-day campaign for cleanliness of the metropolis mere “eyewash” which had badly “failed” due to incompetence and corruption.

The party’s Karachi chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rahman in a press conference at its headquarters, Idara Noor-i-Haq, said the JI had closely monitored the campaign launched more than three months ago and was not able to find “a single piece of evidence” which could prove that the campaign had any positive effect on Karachi.

“Shortage of funds and powers is a baseless excuse offered by the Karachi mayor,” he said. “It’s in fact a cover-up to conceal corruption of the local bodies. He has funds of over Rs23 billion under his disposal apart from Rs17bn to Rs18bn allocated to the district councils. It makes a budget of more than Rs40bn dedicated for civic issues. But you would never hear these facts being shared by the city mayor with his voters and the people of Karachi,” said the JI leader.

Published in Dawn, March 11th, 2017