'41% of Karachi has no water pipelines'

Mustafa Kamal's protest enters its fourth day in Karachi

KARACHI: Almost 41% of the areas in Karachi have no water pipelines and only 550 million gallons per day (MGD) of water is being supplied to residents against the demand of 1,240MGD.

Despite this situation, the government is patronising the tanker mafia who are selling the water of our children, claimed former mayor of Karachi and the chairperson of Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP), Mustafa Kamal, while addressing media personnel at a protest camp outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday.

"Karachi is generating revenue for the entire country but the leaders have not spared it," he said. According to Kamal, he planned for 50 years in the future as mayor and claimed that the K-IV project was his brainchild.



"We demand that the government start laying pipelines. I can help the government without any incentive since I have experience of laying pipelines during my [tenure]," maintained Kamal. He was of the view that for the first time, his government had provided water to the islands. Seeing our previous work, people of character are joining the PSP, he claimed.

The PSP chief warned that if they started a march, it would be towards the localities the leaders inhabit since they have made Karachi into a money-minting machine. "We won't leave the protest camp without getting our issues resolved since we are not demanding anything like mineral water for the residents," he reiterated.

We have just been demanding basic rights for the residents of Karachi such as potable water, which even the worst governments around the world have given to their citizens, he said. "This is the fourth day of our protest and these four days will be written in history as a silent revolution, whenever democracy is being discussed," said Kamal.