KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information & Labour Saeed Ghani and Minister for Local Government, Religious Affairs and Forest Department Syed Nasir Hussain Shah have inaugurated the annual Urs Celebrations of Hazrat Syed Abdullah Shah Ghazi on 22nd August 2019. The annual Urs of the holy saint is being celebrated in a befitting matter under the administrative control of the Government of Sindh, Auqaf Department. The Urs celebrations will be continued from 20th to 22nd Zil-Hajj 1440 Hijri i.e. 22nd to 24th August 2019.

In an apparent reaction both Ministers said that Sindh Government led by Pakistan Peoples Party fully owned Karachi and doing development works in Karachi because Karachi city is the major contributor of revenue to the national exchequer.

The Minister Information & Labour Saeed Ghani while talking to the media on this occasion said that the Mayor Waseem Akhtar is responsible for destruction caused across the city. He said that the Government of Sindh has disposed of 46000 tonnes of waste after Eid-ul-Azha. The Minister Information said that PTI leader Ali Zaidi has dumped the garbage of storm water drains in the parks and open places of the city adding that it had multiplied the miseries of the people of the city. Minister Information & Labour said that Syed Murad Ali Shah is still the Chief Minister of Sindh and it is useless to discuss about his being ineligible for the office of the Chief Minister. He said that the Sindh Government will spend 125 billion rupees for the development of the mega city, Karachi. The Minister Information lamented that the Mayor Karachi did not talk to Ali Zaidi he must ask him not to openly dump waste being collected from storm water drains during their de-silting under the Federal Government backed clean Karachi campaign. Saeed Ghani further said that the Mayor is claiming he did not have any power but factual position is that the Mayor has 80 percent of the power to lift the garbage in city and 100 percent responsible for cleaning of storm water drains.

Provincial Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah on this occasion while talking to the media said that all parks and grounds that were encroached across the city in the reign of the previous Government of Muttehida Qaumi Movement is responsible for the destruction of the city. He said that they have encroached TP-II and other places upon the storm drain water due to which the city faced severe destruction. He said that the organizations / departments like KDA, KMC, and Water Board which were profitable before 2005 are now facing deficit. He criticized that MQM when it was in power in Sindh Government embezzled into the funds of these departments. Many things are to be revealed in the days to come. He said that the Sindh Government always supporting these organizations by giving billions of funds under the heads of utilities, salaries and other development works. He said that in the previous year the Government of Sindh has given Rs55 crore for cleaning of storm drains. He said that if the cleanliness was done in proper way the situation have not been worst during this year rains. He said that the Sindh Chief Minister has already ordered an inquiry to probe into this matter that where the funds has been spent, he concluded.—PR