PTI, JI agree on need for no-confidence against Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab

JI also condemns PPP over 'corruption, fascist tactics' to suppress peaceful protest

KARACHI:

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Ameer Monem Zafar called on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh President Haleem Adil Sheikh on Tuesday to discuss moving a no-confidence motion against the 'imposed mayor' of Karachi, as well as the alleged incompetence and corruption of the Pakistan Peoples Party-led (PPP) Sindh government.

The JI delegation, including Karachi Deputy Ameer and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Council opposition leader Saifuddin Advocate, met Sheikh at his residence to seek the PTI's support for the no-confidence motion against Mayor Murtaza Wahab.

During the meeting, both sides reached a principled consensus on the need to remove the mayor through a no-confidence move.

Sheikh, on behalf of his party, assured full cooperation to the JI on the issue and agreed that a comprehensive strategy would soon be formulated to ensure its success.

Other PTI leaders present at the meeting included senior vice president of Sindh, Raja Azhar; Karachi president, Fahim Khan; general secretary, Arsalan Khalid; parliamentary leader in KMC, Mubashir Hafiz-ul-Haq; and vice chairman, Jinnah Town, Hamid Nawaz Khan.

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The participants strongly condemned the arrest of political workers and the registration of terrorism cases against activists of JI and PTI in Karachi. They said such actions had further increased public resentment against the PPP-led Sindh government, adding that political struggle could not be suppressed through coercive tactics for long.

The meeting also discussed widespread corruption in the Sindh government, KMC and other institutions in Karachi, as well as the city's worsening civic conditions.

The leaders claimed that corruption had become the only functioning system across Sindh and Karachi. They further stated that incidents, including the Gul Plaza tragedy and recurring fire outbreaks, had exposed the incompetence of the provincial government.

According to the leaders, citizens in Karachi continued to face acute shortages of water, power outages and poor road conditions.

Long-delayed development projects remained incomplete, worsening public hardships. Traffic congestion, accidents involving dumpers, rising crime and fatalities caused by falls into open manholes and drains have become routine occurrences in the city.

They said that the PPP and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan were attempting to divert public attention through political manoeuvering, but, said, the public was no longer willing to be misled.