RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) on Monday took to the streets against shortage of water in Karachi and vowed to continue with more protests by holding Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led Sindh Government responsible for the miseries of Karachiites because of its bad governance and corruption.

The party also vowed to continue with the more protests if the problems confronting the people of Karachi were not resolved when its top leadership including party convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar and others addressed a protest demonstration outside Karachi Press Club.

Dr Siddiqui, who is also Federal Minister for Information Technology, invited Prime Minister Imran Khan to intervene in the matters of Sindh as the Constitution allows him to do so if a provincial government is unable to manage the affairs of province.

He said that the people of Karachi are leading a miserable life but the rulers of the province are busy with their luxuries and perks and privileges. “This cruelty can’t bring any change in the society,” he believed and announced that his party would go with more protests against the injustices done against the metropolis in future if the issues of the city were not resolved.

He warned the provincial government to mend its ways as if the entire city took to the streets, they would not have any place to hide. He deplored that Karachi receives meager against its seventy and ninety percent contribution in national and provincial exchequers respectively.

Mayor Wasim Akhtar said that entire city is protesting against the shortage of water and accused Sindh government of turning the city into ruins.

He said that the funds released from the federal government to provincial government are siphoned off and said that entire budget of Sindh is funded on the contributions of Karachi.

He said that the MQM-P would go with the protests against the injustices of the provincial government against Karachi and announced to stage a sit-in at M A Jinnah Road along with the elected representatives of local government.