JI takes transport stakeholders onboard
Under its “Rebuild Karachi” initiative, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi on Saturday took stakeholders of the city’s transport sector onboard at a conference entitled The Past and the Future of Karachi’s Transport.
The moot was held at a local institute and was presided over by JI Karachi deputy chief Osama Razi. Karachi Transport Ittehad Chairman Irshad Bukhari, Dr Tahir Soomro and others expressed their views at the discussion.
Osama Razi, while speaking on the occasion, said the prevailing ruling regime in the province didn’t have the capability to resolve the prolonged issues being faced by the masses.
He said that the megalopolis has become a city of problems and the gravity of these issues demands a public service-centric model of politics in Karachi.
He urged the masses to take part in collective efforts to resolve the issues or at least play their due role by highlighting them.
Irshad Bukhari said that in the year 2010, some 20 to 22,000 busses, coaches and minibuses were running on the roads of Karachi, but now the situation has become much worse.
He added that the only way forward for the transport sector in Karachi was public private partnership. Investors and the public sectors will have to come forward for any progress and betterment in the transport sector of Karachi.
Bukhari recalled that a driving school in Karachi used to issue permit for bus driving after a month long training. “The MQM played a significant role in ruining the transport in the city.”
Published in The Express Tribune, March 27th, 2022.