APROPOS the news report ‘Karachi and London have a lot of parallels’ (Dec 9). The report quotes the mayor of London, Mr Sadiq Khan, as saying that Karachi and London have a lot of parallels.

The only parallel I can see is that both places are two of the several mega-cities in the world.

With respect to corruption, law and order, governance, social security, cleanliness-degradation owing to accumulated garbage and flowing gutters, broken roads, land mafia, clean water issue facing Karachi, there are no parallels with London.

Rafi Ahmed

Karachi

Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2017