'Artificial' power crisis in Karachi: MQM urges President, Prime Minister to take notice

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, Haider Abbas Rizvi, has said that his party could play a vital role in steering out the country from the ongoing energy and other crises but would not allow anyone to push any house to darkness at the cost of other. He was speaking at a press conference at party head office here on Monday. MQM Co-ordination Committee members including Wasay Jalil, Mian Atiq also flanked him.
Advocating the need for adopting a national approach for the resolution of energy crisis, he said that the need of the hour was to identify those people who were bent upon ignoring the Cabinet Committee's decisions which amounted to an open violation of the Constitution and the law. Accusing officials of pushing Karachiites towards an artificial power and water crises on the political and economic grounds, Rizvi said that such officials were continuously ignoring the decisions of Cabinet's committee which, he added, amounted to sheer excess against Karachi and its citizens. He said that the city's electricity and water crisis was not only confined to the Karachiites alone but it was a national issue because the country's economy was on the verge of collapse mainly owing to closure of industries in Karachi.
He said that at a time when the entire country was in the grip of serious energy crisis, over 20 million population of Karachi was facing acute power crisis while water crisis was also cropping up rapidly. He demanded of President Asif Ali Zardari and caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso to take concrete measures to help resolve the city's artificial power and water crisis, besides ensuring that SSGC and the KESC must refrain from their anti-Karachi policy.