HYDERABAD: Sindh organiser of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Dr Arif Ali commenting on the Karachi corps commander’s statement about governance in Sindh and his recent meeting with traders to seek suggestions on economic revival, said that such space was provided by civilian governments.

“What the corps commander is saying in the backdrop of terrorism is due to civilian rulers’ failure to handle situation the way it demands,” he said, while speaking to journalists at the residence of Zulfikar Halepoto, who runs the PTI Sindh media monitoring office, here on Sunday.

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The MNA also addressed party workers, attended a meeting of the Sindh CNG Association and called on Qaumi Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palijo during his visit to the city.

Dr Alvi called for increasing the factors to calculate National Finance Commission (NFC) Award for provinces and a bigger share for underdeveloped provinces. He said such re-definition of factors is necessary.

“We demand that NFC’s weightage formula should be redefined and factors like crisis of some particular nature in a province, a province being underdeveloped, contribution of a province in the GDP and its infrastructural development should also be made factors to calculate NFC Award,” he said. In India, he said, eight different factors are considered.

Dr Alvi claimed that bureaucracy, politicians and governance in Sindh were hit by unprecedented corruption. He observed that the province continued to face issues relating to water distribution.

Although water flows this year remained satisfactory due to rains, it did not mean that the 1991 Water Accord should not be implemented.

He criticised the Sindh government over water crisis in Karachi, and said that had the K-IV project been executed, the metropolis would not have been facing the crisis today.

He expressed his concern over delimitation in Sindh ahead of the local government polls and said the process was are not in line with the Delimitation Act.

Published in Dawn, June 1st, 2015

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