Kamal seeks army’s role in development

PSP chief questions population figures

Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) Chairman Mustafa Kamal has said that the ongoing operation for peace in Karachi is unlikely to succeed without development initiatives for the city.

Addressing a public meeting in Liaquatabad on Sunday, he appealed to the army chief to take responsibility for development work in Karachi, like Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered tribal areas.

He also said that youths of Karachi should be pardoned for their mistakes, as was being done in Balochistan. He said he was not in favour of pitching people against each other.

Kamal said the name of MQM would have to be buried because it had damaged the reputation of the Muhajir community. He vowed to resist those who were weakening the country.

 

He accused the Sindh chief minister of having quoted before the Supreme Court a lower population of the city than the actual figure. He claimed that Karachi’s population was 45% of Sindh but it had been shown as 27% by reducing the figure by seven million in this year’s census. The recorded population of Lahore had increased by 3% but that of Karachi by 1.5%. The population of Karachi South district has dropped.

Kamal alleged that the Pakistan People’s Party and the CM were aiming at changing the constituencies so that one assembly seat of the Central district would go to the rural areas. Such a step should be stopped because it would be unfair, he said.

People should be aware that the Karachi circular railway project had been excluded from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, he said.

He said Karachi needed at least 1,200 million gallons of water daily and the chief minister was responsible for the shortage.