Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi chief Engr Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has said that the JI's Karachi Rights Caravan starting on Sunday, May 29, at 4pm from Quaid's Mazar is meant for securing the rights of over 35 million Karachiites.
"The rally will go down in history as the point of start for delivery of rights to the people in Karachi," JI Karachi chief said addressing a press conference at JI headquarters in Karachi, Idara Noore Haq, on Friday morning.
On the occasion, Engr Naeemur Rehman shared the route of the caravan.
He said the caravan will start from the Mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the evening and culminated at Super Market area in Liaquatabad after passing through Nazimabad, North Nazimabad, North Karachi, Shafiq Mor, Sohrab Goth, and Federal B Area.
Rehman said that the caravan will be welcomed at multiple spots while big conventions will be held at Hyderi Market and Liaquataba Super Market areas.
The JI leader said that the party's next course of action will be announced at the culmination of the caravan. He urged Karachiites to join the caravan along with their families.
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Talking aout the local bodies elections in the city, he said that both the ruling party and the opposition parties in Sindh were trying to find a scape route to avoid the polls. However, he said, no one would be allowed to sabotage the local bodies elections. He demanded of the authorities to ensure holding local bodies polls as per the schedule.
Speaking on the occasion, the JI leader also lambasted the government over acute shortage of water and electricity in the city.
He said that former premier Imran Khan had announced the 650 million gallon K4 water supply project in Karachi but later it was shown as a 260 million gallon water project and that too could not be materialized.
The PPP government had also wasted some 24 billion rupees on the project and later dubbed it as not implementable.
He added that the megalopolis deserves 1650 million gallon water but it is supplied only 550 million gallon water, out of which 174 million gallon water is accounted for leakage. He casted a doubt that 174 million gallon means a little above 35 percent of the water supplied to the city and it is syphoned to the tanker mafia.
He said that the then PML-N's federal government usurped the rights of Karachiites by showing only half of their population in census while the PPP and the MQM both abetted for this sheer injustice to Karachi.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 28th, 2022.
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