City Nazim Mustafa Kamal has demanded that the control of whole of Karachi should be transferred to him. He should know that the Devolution Plan prepared by General Naqvi has been a total failure and the next elected democratic government that comes will surely annul this Devolution Plan and go back to the pre-1999 system government.
Just look at the state of the city of Karachi. The roads are all dug up, sewers are all overflowing; the storm water drains are all broken up and for the last several months endangering the lives of the citizens. And yet with all this to their discredit they go on increasing the taxes without any sympathy for the common man.
The latest increase of ground rent on properties from 25 paisas per sq. yd. p.a. to rupees 6 per sq. yd. p.a. and that too it has been charged for the last 3 three years. No announcement was made for this increase nor people's objections were invited. It was nothing but robbery. Ground rent is a colonial act of tyranny and CDGK is only adopting it to squeeze out taxes from the citizens.
Can our Nazim inform the citizens what they get in return for this ground rent? It is un-Islamic to tax people and give them nothing in return. I request all homeowners to protest strongly and even file a writ petition.
How long will the citizen bear this tyranny? I appeal to all political parties to raise their voice against the unjustified actions. The political parties should remember that sooner or later they will have to come to the homeowners for votes.