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Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Altaf Shakoor has said that under charter city status Karachi should be allowed to generate its own financial resources through 'charter city taxation'.
It should be run on the pattern of civilized mega cities of the world like London, New York and Tokyo through empowered metropolitan government systems and elected metropolitan police chiefs.
He said municipal system in Karachi is a total failure and the government should impose a municipal emergency in Karachi and call army to assist in removal of garbage and opening of choked gutter lines and our corrupt and crippled civil administration is not able to do this huge task.
The sitting rulers are politically axing their own feet by neglecting Karachi, and they would get a bitter result of this anti-Karachi mentality in coming elections, he said.
He said the 10 points of the Prime Minister and a committee under the chair of federal minister Naseem Farogh is just an eye wash, as Karachiites had been fooled by such tricks in past as well.
He said if the rulers are really sincere to empower Karachi and help it to resolve its own issue without waiting for federal or provincial governments, it should immediately be given the status of a 'charter city'.
He said that Karachi feeds the whole Pakistan and it could sustain itself financially if its hands are untied.
Altaf Shakoor said that Karachi is the worst mega city of the world in terms of public transport. He said public transport sector in the mega city is in sheer disarray.
The federal and provincial projects of rapid bus transit are on back burner. Despite the clear cut directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the government is dragging feet in revival of the Karachi Circular Railway or introducing tram system in the city. He appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa to take notice of this blatant contempt of court, and send the corrupt and inefficient bureaucrats involved in this contempt to jail.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019

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