PM Imran says 'comprehensive package' is being drafted for Karachi to 'end decades of neglect'
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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that a "comprehensive package" for Karachi will be announced by the federal government in order to "end the decades of neglect and suffering of the people of this great metropolis".
In a tweet, the prime minister said that he had directed all Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNAs and MPAs elected from Karachi to stay in their constituencies and provide assistance to residents on Eidul Azha and Independence Day.
"I have directed all MNAs/MPAs of Karachi to be in their constituencies throughout Eid and Independence Day holidays and provide all assistance to the people. The Federal Govt is drafting a comprehensive package to end the decades of neglect and suffering of the people of this great metropolis," he posted on his official Twitter account.
The tweet comes a day after at least 11 people, including a child, lost their lives in rain-related incidents in Karachi. Nine people died of electrocution, while two were killed in roof collapses in Qasbah Colony and Bhatta Village as the megalopolis experienced heavy monsoon showers for a second consecutive day.
Several people and vehicles were stuck on roads that were inundated with water while electricity supply was suspended in certain areas. Rangers were called upon to carry out a rescue operation in the city.
Though Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah visited rain affected areas and directed Karachi commissioner, city police and local body members to drain rain water and assist residents, the provincial government attracted severe criticism for failing to deal with the rain crisis despite prior warning.
In May this year, Prime Minister Imran had announced a Rs162 billion development package for Karachi, which included grants for 18 projects, which will be focused on priority areas like transportation and water provision.
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Aug 12, 2019 01:33pm
Good decision.
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Aug 12, 2019 01:46pm
So rainfall prompted you to make this tall claim? Party that cannot finish 1 metrobus, while PMLN made 3 metrobuses in same cost...what can you do to resolve any issue of Karachi.
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Aug 12, 2019 01:52pm
My advice is to send Pakistani civil engineers to the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia to be shown how a sewer system is properly maintained. Obviously we don't know.
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Aug 12, 2019 01:54pm
This is a good move on the part of federal government to take care of city, which has been contributing substantially in the national exchequer. The development and infrastructure needs of this great metropolis city are beyond the city of provincial government, which has limited resources to spend on the development needs of province from Karachi to Kashmore, whereas the resources of this province are generally collected by federal government and returned to province based on its population, which is a cause of discontentment and anger among the province and the federal government. The Karachi Port, Oil and Gas Revenues are being collected by Federal Govt., and a meager revenue is returned, which is hardly sufficient to meet the full demands of even one mega city like Karachi, while this city in addition to providing revenue, is hosting millions of people from other provinces, therefore, it is the duty of federal govt. to contribute in the development of this great metropolis city.
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Aug 12, 2019 01:59pm
You won't be able to make a single sewage system. What are you talking about. This is how much you are incompetent.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:00pm
Planned to setup new printing press for 116billion rupee notes. Keep it up.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:04pm
I don’t trust IK. He is proven lair.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:07pm
If you indeed are serious about doing any thing for the citizens of this city as well as other urban areas of Sindh including Hyderabad, Sukkur and Mirpurkhas among others, please find alternatives for ruling us as colonies of the rural crooks who taking advantage of their subjects in their areas of influence and control, and under any kinds of threats, get their votes to rule both them as well as the urban citizenry and have been creating a hell for us whenever they come to power. Otherwise it is just a hollow exercise without any solution to our problems.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:08pm
Krna kuch nhi h
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Aug 12, 2019 02:18pm
Hope they are serious.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:23pm
Too little, too late. In the meantime, irreparable and irretrievable losses, mishaps and damages have taken their tolls on life, liberty, freedom, utilities, infrastructure, independence, peace and pursuit of happiness in the great city of Karachi, Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:24pm
Shame on PPP
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Aug 12, 2019 02:30pm
If you and your government wishes to be fair to Karachi, could you pass a law in the national assembly making it obligatory on all the provincial governments and the federal government to allocate and spend a minimum of sixty percent taxes collected from a place over the development of the same without any ifs and buts. That step will prove your bonafides into undoing the injustices done during ever since the capital of the country was shifted from Karachi.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:34pm
he is smart in drafts and lectures, see how the economy ruined during his one year tenure
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Aug 12, 2019 02:40pm
Just Karachi alone needs a good $10-20 Billion cash infusion to rebuild the crumbling infrastructure, roads, bridges, traffic control system, law enforcement, drainage and sewage system, power supply and building code enforcement to make the city a decent livable metropolis it was until the 1970s. Until, that is, some notorious criminal gangs disguised as political parties took over and mayhem began as a law unto themselves. MQM and PPP and jointly responsible for the rapid decline in the quality of life and heightened crime level around the city and shambles of section of Karachi - as if no one is in charge.
Get rid of PPP and MQM shadows and appoint seasoned professionals to administer the city and it will start looking like some semblance of its glorious past.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:43pm
You are in government from last one year and need of special package for Karachi was not hidden myth so why it took so long and even after one year it is just a promise. Lets forget about the things where provincial government is involved why KCR is yet not revived despite the orders from SC then what is the status of Green line project? Action speak louder than words it is matter of fact that Karachi is being destroyed so that it can be used to bring power change in province. Cities can be managed if goal is to manage the city (take Lahore as example) but if goal is the power struggle and regime change then any city can become Karachi. Sorry to say dear PM but your government is even not able to complete Orange line metro in Lahore, BRT in Peshawar, Islamabad airport metro project in ISB.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:48pm
As if peshawar has been made a worthy example! Peshwar and islamabad metros are rotting with delays costing billions! Saying is easy but who cares for doing something!
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Aug 12, 2019 02:49pm
Ya saying is easy Mr PM, first complete metro peshwar and metro islamabad airport, which are rotting for years now.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:50pm
.... Easy to say but hard to do.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:54pm
Thank you Imran Khan. PPP is the root cause of suffering of Karachi people. They neglected us.
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Aug 12, 2019 02:55pm
What about Sindh
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Aug 12, 2019 02:56pm
IK is full of hot air
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Aug 12, 2019 03:06pm
wasnt karachi was and still being ruled by MQM?anyone dared to ask them?
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Aug 12, 2019 03:07pm
And we can only hope ut will get delivered before your 5 years end
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Aug 12, 2019 03:10pm
Mr PM Imran Khan, please make sure that Asif Ali Zardari led PPP does not make Karachi an even worse graveyard and Karachiites a living dead!!
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Aug 12, 2019 03:18pm
Shame on PTI govt who is just fooling people for more than a year now.
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Aug 12, 2019 03:19pm
Implementation of article 140 A of 18 amendments empowering Local Bodies
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Aug 12, 2019 03:19pm
As far as the people are concerned giving money for Karachi while Sindh is under the PPP is like flushing it down the toilet.
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Aug 12, 2019 03:21pm
Thank you for sparing a thought for us orphans. You finally got time for us too. Feeling so thankful.
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Aug 12, 2019 03:22pm
In the 1950's and 1960's Karachi used to get flooded when heavy rains battered the city. Nothing new in
2019. Accept it and live with it.
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Aug 12, 2019 03:25pm
@A Civilian,
Nice try posting as a Pakistani.
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Aug 12, 2019 03:26pm
What was he doing before the rains started? Why make a policy after eyes opened by the damage?
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Aug 12, 2019 03:28pm
@Asm, what was this govt. doing before the rains started? Sleeping?
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Aug 12, 2019 03:31pm
“PM Imran announces 162 Bn package for Karachi” Dawn reported on 9.3.19. Did anything moved after this announcement?
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Aug 12, 2019 03:40pm
Karachi is the bloodline of the country and should be federally administered moving forward.
The PPP vaderas and MQM have done nothing in the last few decades for bettering peoples lives. Obviously, PML-N hasn’t helped either.
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Aug 12, 2019 03:46pm
@topbrass, keep voting PPP :p
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Aug 12, 2019 03:46pm
Nothing is being done in dehli colony.
Aftab Ahmad siddiqui came for a photo session and left.
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Aug 12, 2019 03:48pm
@topbrass, karachi is sindh, hope you know that.
The plan should be drafted for rest of sindh as well.
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Aug 12, 2019 03:49pm
We stand behind you Prime Minister of Pakistan Honorable Imran Khan.
Gehrat mand Pathan!
Pakistan Zindabad!
Love you Karachi what a great city who welcomes everyone. I have lots of friends in Karachi, I wish I could afford to have a vacation house in Karachi most good areas no property is less than half a million dollars.
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Aug 12, 2019 03:56pm
The PPP is at FAULT for the disaster that is Karachi Shareef.
For eleven years they have been Karachi's provincial government and wHat have they done....... nothing!
They have specialised in fake accounts and killing people on their way to hospitals by blocking roads. They come to their offices and do what???
These uneducated people come from villages and live in cities and loot and scoot. But now they are getting caught and put in jail. Let them remain there with common criminals until judgement from courts.
Thanks to our stupid constitutional amendments, production orders are issued from assemblies and criminals attend assemblies. HOW RIDICULOUS! The author of this amendment should be brain washed in toto.
The sooner we get somebody like Mustafa Kamal, the better for all Pakistan. If he corrupts the money and merit... ARREST HIM IMMEDIATELY. Why was the Minister for Education removed? Because he was doing a meritorious job? Salams
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Aug 12, 2019 04:02pm
Wow good job PM !!! But isn't this suppose to always happen or its something new...
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Aug 12, 2019 04:02pm
@Asm,
Grow up...
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Aug 12, 2019 04:14pm
And the drafting only started after the rain and work will end when the water clears! Too many hollow promises being made in this fake naya pakistan! Pakistan is in leadership crises since Jinnah and the search continues.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:16pm
I wish Karachi is declared a federal territory.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:18pm
But don't give money to sindh govt. It will be transferred to dubai.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:20pm
This government can not do anything. They can't even finish a BRT in Peshawar for last 2 years and you expect them to solve Karachi's problems.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:23pm
He has been giving packages after packages but nothing is seen on the ground.Hardly any funds have been actually released No bus system has started as yet .Not a single educational or training institution has been built.He seems to be no different than previous rulers for Karachi.Karachittes fooled again.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:26pm
give this city to the party it belongs to. they have manpower, planning and sincere too. Since Mustafa Kamal left not a single major project is carried out in this city. PPP always tried to break the power bank of MQM
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Aug 12, 2019 04:27pm
Mr. Prime Minister Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi,
You and we should not expect any positive aspect from the most corrupt regional political party PPP which is ruling Sindh for more than four decades.
This is the bunch of corrupts, money-launderers, mal-administrators and criminals.
All funds and finances must be given and transferred to the local governments and local bodies.
The urban and rural areas must be free from PPP-Mafia.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:28pm
@shamshad,
Mr. shamshad,
Correct.
And as soon as possible.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:29pm
@Asm,
Mr. Asm,
Does the most corrupt party PPP feel shame?
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Aug 12, 2019 04:30pm
I can bet you rs162 billion that the package in whole will never reach the streets of Karachi. I can bet you another rs162 billion that we will be seeing similar or worse images next year. I bet you another rs162 billion that K-Electric and others responsible for the damages to life, property, transport and business will never be brought to any form of justice. I don't have that rs162 billion but if I did I would win every one of those bets! Isn't it comforting, throwing figures around... I can do it too...
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Aug 12, 2019 04:30pm
@Parvez,
Mr. Parvez,
And PPP is the most corrupt party in Pakistan and province Sindh
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Aug 12, 2019 04:38pm
Great , Karachi must be saved,my great grandma home still up there.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:39pm
Khan moves forward. The quicker the better...
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
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Aug 12, 2019 04:39pm
I wish ex Minister Saeed Ghani had spared some time in preparation of plans to tackle onslaught of the monsoons. For future related government department and the related ministry should formulate SOPs with timelines for this purpose. Sense of accountability should be strengthened to pre-empt havoc of this scale caused by the rains.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:44pm
@A Civilian,
You need pipeline to drain water whole karachi. Imran khan cant do it in 1 year. PPP and Nawaz govern almost 4 decades. They didnt do anything for karachi.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:45pm
One year late. We voted you last year in Karachi, after discarding MQM and PPP.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:47pm
Hahaha ,funny guy.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:48pm
First fire all responsible people who did not do there job. Restructure the city government.
Get serious . Enough is enough!!
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Aug 12, 2019 04:49pm
No package will help Karachi. What Karachi and for that matter Hyderabad need are fully empowered metropolitan governments - within the ambit of Sindh province but with sufficient executive and financial and revenue generating powers not to be throttled by a incompetent and corrupt provincial government. Packages are mere eye wash.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:50pm
Khan sb,
Its time to do Prime minister u r ceo of the company u can do anything..We want u to pls physcially stay in karachi for 2 weeks and make the things right.. Karachi has voted in your favor and given u 14 seats the most in any city u got. Making just announcements wont help the cause.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:53pm
The images of the havoc caused by flood in Pakistan's commercial capital are heart-breaking. Of course, years of neglect is to blame. I wish Mr Khan focused on this issue by not referring to the blatantly obvious - the fault of previous governments.
Mr Khan, like any other politician, wants to leave behind a legacy and he has every right to do so. Unfortunately, he appears to be focusing on too many at the moment, when the current economic situation can least afford to do it - in good faith, though.
Instead, if he focuses his energy on 2 or 3 major things and seethem through with brutal determination - in order overcome the beurecratic lethargy and deal with shark who are addicted to milk the system - he will be able be achieve his ultimate politcal goal, the most supreme one.
This is what he did when he led his team to win the Cricket World Cup in 1992.
Being neither a Pakistani nor an Indian, I wish him good luck in his desire to change to lift the lives of Pakistans.
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Aug 12, 2019 04:59pm
Thank goodness! Bypass the damned incompetent PPP Sind government!!!
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Aug 12, 2019 05:00pm
This is so sad. What did Asif Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto do about this? Nothing. Well they were busy hoarding wealth from People of Pakistan..
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Aug 12, 2019 05:00pm
Ridiculous! This isn't the first time this is happening, no action was taken in the past and nothing is being done today. Karachi is your main business hub which should never experience such flooding. It is absolutely ridiculous how politician treat their metropolitan city.
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Aug 12, 2019 05:05pm
Hope this is just not another Big Announcement without any actual implementation.
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Aug 12, 2019 05:05pm
"gt metropolis." Is this a video game?
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Aug 12, 2019 05:07pm
For those Blaming IK/PTI, are you out of your mind? What about the PPP Sind government? What have they been doing?
The blame rests with the PPP jiyalays. They have not donea bit for Karachi just because the local government is not in their hands. They have held back funding despite the federal government allocating money to Karachi.
Karachi is being held hostage to PPP’s dirty provincial politics with the center and Karachi’s local government.
Put Karachi under the governer’s rule and bypass PPP completely. That is the only way to fix this city i.e. little Pakistan!
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Aug 12, 2019 05:11pm
lollipop only....
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Aug 12, 2019 05:13pm
Still drafting? Mohenjo Daro had the better drainage system than metropolis Karachi.
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Aug 12, 2019 05:14pm
It is just like to lock the door after when the horse is stolen. Never has it happened before that any precautionary steps are taken before it may take too long. The blind expansion of the cities and particularly Karachi, Lahore , and almost all big cities is an alarming factor which is ignored happily just like all other important factors and that is why then special packages are being announced just to make an eye wash.
We either lack that required interest or ability. But perhaps the truth is that we lack both. Apart from this whatever are the responsibilities of people those are also ignored very foolishly. People must be educated, and brought under law who violate the cleanliness rules. And similarly, traffic rules, water wastage, electricity and fire burning,smoke emissions etc etc.
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Aug 12, 2019 05:15pm
Comprehensive package when the economy has no money
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Aug 12, 2019 05:19pm
Any 'comprehensive package' that includes the PPP is doomed to fail. Only long-term solution for Karachi is ridding it from the PPP's clutches and giving it an autonomous empowered local government (ideally one that is not controlled by the Sindh provincial govt, which shows no hope in the future).
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Aug 12, 2019 05:23pm
Finally! Someone cared for Karachi. Thanks.
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Aug 12, 2019 05:37pm
Too Late Mr. Imran
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Aug 12, 2019 05:38pm
Wishful and positive but from where will you get the money dear PM?
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Aug 12, 2019 05:41pm
this will continue until a proper sewer system is built, the locals will have to pay for it though.
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Aug 12, 2019 05:42pm
Please advice when activate this comprehensive planing ....
when full Karachi sink?
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Aug 12, 2019 05:43pm
All cities in Pakistan must have a local body system based on the US local bodies. This is how nations are built.
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Aug 12, 2019 05:44pm
See our PM has solution for everything, Pakistan Zindabad
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Aug 12, 2019 05:50pm
Just 70+ years ago, we were same people, this is the same fate across all coastal lines on the Arabian Sea. Forget ethnicity if you can, every living creature is a gift, Eid Mubarak
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Aug 12, 2019 05:53pm
Ik I hope you got fund to resolve the issue however it's good move and to be appreciated
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Aug 12, 2019 05:58pm
And why mr PM you have waited till now. Another effort to fool Krachite when they are needy, but by now you can’t fool any one.
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Aug 12, 2019 06:00pm
For long, PM Khan and his team have been talking about the package, but sadly it has been a talk only but no actions. The residents of this city provide 70% of revenue have been treated like orphans if not less.
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Aug 12, 2019 06:02pm
Thanks PPP, MQM & KE for making Karachi, once the city of Lights to Mohen jo Daro.
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Aug 12, 2019 06:03pm
Karachi needs good governance in the long term, packages might help in the short term. But maintaining the infrastructure and administrating the city needs a strong, corruption free government which is accountable to the people of Karachi. Musharraf and MQM also launched several infrastructure projects back in 2006/7 but they have fallen to disrepair due to PPP's indifference and stubbornness.
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Aug 12, 2019 06:12pm
Again it seems hollow slogan and nothing else please stop fooling people of karachi
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Aug 12, 2019 06:16pm
@topbrass, Karachi is in Sindh, isn't it?
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Aug 12, 2019 06:16pm
Mr. Prime Minister: I was born in Karachi and left the country when I was 18, when I visit the city that I still call mine it really breaks my heart, on how it has simply been allowed to go down the toilet, no one cares everyone is busy either filling their or others pockets to get their way, flyovers, under passes built are hazardous and dangerous, no civilized country's engineers would have signed on their completion certificate due to safety concerns. Illegal construction has no barriers, maybe you and the CBR should audit the KDA/KMC inspectors, and you will probably find more wealth hidden under the mattress than you have in State bank.
what you are proposing can no longer be done by either the province, politicians or the city administration it is now beyond them they are tainted and corrupt.
the only way I see it being done correctly is by bringing Karachi directly under Federal control for a period of 10 years. do the job correctly the hand it over to the province.
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Aug 12, 2019 06:21pm
No other government in Karachi has even provided such lip service in the past. At least Imran intentions are good
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Aug 12, 2019 06:23pm
What did the PPP do for Karachi when in power????
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Aug 12, 2019 06:30pm
People forget that MQM sold all the Natural Drains of rain water in Karachi, Go and look at Gujar Nala how Narrow it has become because of Illegal construction.
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Aug 12, 2019 06:33pm
@Asm, PPP & Nawaz leage have no shame.
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Aug 12, 2019 06:42pm
@A Civilian, This did not happen overnight, PPP government has been neglecting betterment of Sindh for years and looting the treasury instead for their own betterment.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:07pm
Your Editorial on the problems of the Muslim World on the occasion of The Haj was good. But it was disappointing to see that there was no mention of the plight of Uighirs in China. I think you are the finest newspaper in South Asia, and probably you would have been more forthright in less stifling times. But I salute your courage, we miss Cyril Almeida. All the best
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Aug 12, 2019 07:18pm
IK attempting to touch a beehive nest, must make sure that instead of making any betterment which he earnestly desire, may not end up creating another political issue. The PPP finding it a golden opportunity, to dilute govtt,’s ongoing accountability process against its corrupt leadership, may brand it as unconstitutional interference into provincial govt.’s domain.
The only way out, therefore, in order to carry out much needed surgical operation in providing safety of life and property to the millions of residents of this unfortunate city, is to declare emergency so that DMA and other federal govt. agencies can take emergent rectification work in this mega city whose majority areas have become virtual slums for all practical purposes.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:22pm
All contracts in karachi should be given to the same people building BRT in peshawar..
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Aug 12, 2019 07:25pm
@Kaukab, Stop electing PPP in your neighbourhoods and maybe change will come.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:26pm
Kaptaan sahib, what happened to the pkg that you announced in March 2019? PPL from karachi gave you guys 20+ seats and thats the best we get empty promises. You dont complain when taking all the taxes and revenues from Karachi but when it comes time I dont see any difference between you and PPP.
If you are serious, make things happen not empty promises.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:26pm
@topbrass, karachi is in sindh
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Aug 12, 2019 07:29pm
@topbrass, when the rest of Sindh starts supporting all of Pakistanis with its tax contributions then maybe a thought can be spared for the rest of Sindh?
Why don’t you ask your beloved CM and PPP leaders ‘what about Sindh’?’ What do they have to show for after decades of corruption, mismanagement and ‘feudal’ rule.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:30pm
@A shah, what about PPP and the CM? They have no responsibility in this despite being in power for ‘years and years’. Just the incoming federal govt who’s only been in power for less than a year.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:31pm
Do you have money? What happened to 162Billion package announced in May?
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Aug 12, 2019 07:34pm
Not only package for Karachi. Investigate billions of corruption in Karachi Development Authority in Water, Sewerage and waste managment institute.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:38pm
Nopunjab must have it all
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Aug 12, 2019 07:39pm
Time for PTI MNAs do to NAB-free clean corruption through commissions.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:43pm
@topbrass, Ask your leaders in Sindh who you keep on electing with such a horrible performance.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:46pm
Due to no mass transport system in this city we have now more than 3 million motorcycles costing roughly more than US$ 1 billion in FE and atleast consuming 6 million litres of petrol daily or say another US$ 1 billion in oil imports yearly.A country with net deficit of more than US$ 18 B in balance of payment.The solution immediate mass transport system in Karachi.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:50pm
One more promise to be kept in vault.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:52pm
Anyone involved in Karachi governance needs to go out in packages before receiving a package for development.
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Aug 12, 2019 07:59pm
@A Civilian, do you know who is ruling Sindh yes the ones who keep talking about 18th Amendment every time the federal government steps in.
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Aug 12, 2019 08:02pm
Dear Powerful PM what you did for last one year? your only agenda is blaming the past, and keeping opposition behind the bar
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Aug 12, 2019 08:09pm
@A Civilian, so instead you are appraising PPP wonders for the past 40 years.
PPP must have done a great job as we can see Karachi inc Sindh flourishing for the decades. I hope people of Sindh elect PPP for five years. Can't to see their next great achievements. Thanks A Civilian for your support.
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Aug 12, 2019 08:10pm
Who's gonna believe it, nothing ever done, its just talk and talk.
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Aug 12, 2019 08:23pm
Why PTI is waiting till this damages occurred. Why so late steps taken?
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Aug 12, 2019 08:24pm
First remove PPP from Sindh otherwise all these funds will go in MPAs tummy. Unfortunately.
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Aug 12, 2019 08:25pm
Plz take control of Karachi PM IK. But Sindh Govt must remain in loop. Both Federal Govt + Sindh Govt work in unison to alleviate people sufferings.
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Aug 12, 2019 08:28pm
So long as the Sindh, particularly Karachi, is ruled by criminal mafias, nothing will change, no improvement would be possible.
The government has failed to bring these criminals to justice. It has failed to recover the looted billions.
Imran Khan's announcement may be well meaning, but it won't do any good, so long as criminal gangs rule Sindh and Karachi.
First get rid of the blighters, then implement reforms.
It might work.
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Aug 12, 2019 08:30pm
Twitter PM
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Aug 12, 2019 08:50pm
The federal government should implement and manage all infrastructure development projects in Karachi! Wadera and mafia Incs have destroyed Karachi!
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Aug 12, 2019 08:53pm
@topbrass, Please refer to PPP on their pending promises of Roti,Kapra aur Makkan for past 30 years
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Aug 12, 2019 09:00pm
PM is concerned so does other MNA's but where are the funds? why not funnel funds through Mayor and made him accountable to auditors?
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Aug 12, 2019 09:20pm
@Skeptic, People in Pakistan need to start paying taxes.
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Aug 12, 2019 09:21pm
How much funds were allocated for Karachi municipal development and how were they spent. Check all the concerned authorities and you will definitely find assets beyond means. You need to employ people who know the job. Qualified professionals.
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Aug 12, 2019 09:28pm
@Kaukab, you voted for ppp and asking him for work for you?
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Aug 12, 2019 09:32pm
@HisMaster
Remember that Karachi BRT was started under PMLN government
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Aug 12, 2019 09:33pm
@Sharmin, he ain't in gov. In Sindh, so just stop babbling
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Aug 12, 2019 09:38pm
So the rainfall made you announce this fake amount, when the project will start and when it will finish no one knows. There is only one party which can complete and run any project, you very well know who but your racism does allow you to accept and ultimately effecting to you.
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Aug 12, 2019 09:38pm
Not a good policy to ignore the provincial Government when making such decisions. IK has never ignored the Punjab Government when taking any decision for Lahore.
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Aug 12, 2019 10:01pm
These pictures of flooding in Karachi is the results of mega curruptions of Last 30 yrs of same poltical parties. If this money goes to PPP,then nothing will change,ever in sindh,or Karachi, the rats of Karachi are eating this city for 30 yrs!
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Aug 12, 2019 10:02pm
@HisMaster the metro bus made by pmln,was over budget due to pmln,shabaz curruption,and very cost ineffective to run. He should be name and shamed!
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Aug 12, 2019 10:28pm
Another fake promise like his daily fake promises.
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Aug 12, 2019 10:30pm
@HisMaster Not At All Pal!
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Aug 12, 2019 10:31pm
Current CM, Mayor, and their predecessors' accounts should be fully investigated. This is criminal negligence.
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Aug 12, 2019 10:32pm
@Ali Sabir, We knew it then. Now we don!t know because greed and corruption has takenover our minds.
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Aug 12, 2019 10:35pm
@Hamza, Aap ko kaisay pata. Aap nay kiya kiya hai? Is shehar kay liye.
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Aug 12, 2019 10:35pm
Remove PPP from the government and declare a state of emergency in the city.
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Aug 12, 2019 11:14pm
@Krishna Bhargav, Eid Mubarak to you and many good wishes from Pakistan.
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Aug 12, 2019 11:32pm
@Ali Sabir, you mentioned the word "maintained" There is no infrastructure for sewer to be maintained or anything for that matter. I needs to be built first.
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Aug 12, 2019 11:34pm
Khan is the right man, at the right time. He puts the people first as he moves forward to meet the challenges he inherited. A leader. A pragmatist. He is not a magician!
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
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Aug 12, 2019 11:43pm
@Ali Sabir, The mayor of Atlanta calls our Civil Engineers for work in his city. The various building authorities and too many government departments are the major causes of failure in the city. Regulate the Kacchi abadis as per law and you will see improvements in 90 percent of Karachi.
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Aug 12, 2019 11:59pm
Karachi is caught up in a triangle i.e Fed Government, ppp provincial and MQM local Govt. All are pole apart , they can never agree on a solution. Each one blaming the others for the pathetic situation in the economic hub of the country. All announcements are mere an eyewash aimed at befooling the people.
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Aug 13, 2019 12:15am
@Jalbani Baloch, you highlighted part of the issue, but major reason for pathetic state of Sindh governance is corruption and looting of available funds by PPP government.
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Aug 13, 2019 12:59am
Same as Bombay.
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Aug 13, 2019 01:45am
Lets be honest folks. Extensive use of plastic bags and improper disposal has led to a clog of major sewers in the city of Karachi and elsewhere. In addition to clean-up work, this practice needs to be controlled.
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Aug 13, 2019 02:56am
@HisMaster: so metro bus, bullet train are your standards? Kudos to your logic
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Aug 13, 2019 02:58am
@Shoaib , is building a sewerage system responsibility of the Federal Govt. Then what's left to manage by Provisional Govt and what's left for Mayor to handle?
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Aug 13, 2019 03:17am
Fantastic - The man cares about this country. We need to help him - be one.
No word from Bilawal or PML-N. Useless Sindh Govt - they have done nothing for the province but become rich and corrupted this city. - SHame
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Aug 13, 2019 04:20am
While Government is responsible for making the sewerage system and having it cleaned periodically, public has to play its vital part and not dump solid stuff or plastic in the sewerage system because it chokes it.
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Aug 13, 2019 04:20am
@HisMaster don't forget Sharifs and zardari looted Pakistan to the extent no money for development projects.
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Aug 13, 2019 04:22am
Mr. PM, please look into Peshawar metro first.
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Aug 13, 2019 04:40am
@Ali S,
Mr. Ali S,
All the funds and finances must be given to the local governments and local bodies.
This is the only solution.
It has already proved that PPP is the most corrupt regional political party in Pakistan.
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Aug 13, 2019 06:49am
@Ali Sabir, Do you know difference water sewer budget and revenue generated between two cities . Difference population is other factor. Need to change mind set of people especially people who don’t understand basic civic values.
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Aug 13, 2019 06:51am
what about MNA and MPAs families, who will take care of them?
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Aug 13, 2019 06:57am
@A Civilian, no he is paying off debts to avoid hyperinflation in Pakistan.
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Aug 13, 2019 06:59am
No money,no honey.
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Aug 13, 2019 07:46am
Comprehensive corruption is what he really meant.
Not a single rupee worth change will happen.
Biggest city in the country is suffering like this.
And what about 2nd tier cities and villages ? are they supposed to suffer even more for centuries to come ??
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Aug 13, 2019 08:29am
This is a very good thing the Prime Minister has directed concerned people to resolve the issue of flooding and wastrel management of Karachi. Similar steps need to be taken for all the large cities of Pakistan like Lahore , Faisalabad , Hyderabad , Multan and many more cities
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Aug 13, 2019 08:34am
Apply for a loan...
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Aug 13, 2019 09:04am
If talking can fix problems PTI is the best government.
Otherwise, it is the most useless. What is in this "package"? There is no money.
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Aug 13, 2019 09:55am
That's Good decision as Karachi is the capital of Sindh. What about the rest of sindh other than Karachi? You have saying before coming to power that rural sindh is the most neglected region of Pakistan & you claimed to have a plan for them.
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Aug 13, 2019 10:07am
Karachi seems disgusting.
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Aug 13, 2019 11:41am
@HisMaster probably a damn sight more than PML-N did, worse case scenario he will do as much as PML-N did.
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Aug 13, 2019 12:41pm
We pray it is not an empty statement. Many leaders have looted and scooted from Karachi especially the PPP and MQM. Let us pray that PM IK means business. Salams
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Aug 13, 2019 02:05pm
Only words. No action.
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