KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party Chairman Mustafa Kamal criticized the federal and provincial governments for "their failure to resolve the civic issues of the cities" and accused them of behaving like dictators.

"Democratic parties behave like dictators after getting elected," said Kamal while speaking to the media outside an accountability court where he appeared in a reference pertaining to the allotment of plots in Clifton illegally.

"All the chief ministers are behaving like dictators," he added.

The former Karachi Nazim said that the rights which had been granted by the 18th Amendment should trickle down to the lower tiers of the government as well.

Kamal said that Karachi was the heart of Sindh, and the current style of politics in Pakistan could not continue.

The PSP leader said that the chief minister kept all the funds of the province, according to the National Finance Award.

"This money does not belong to the chief minister, and it should be distributed to the local level," said Kamal.

The PSP chief said that according to the same rules and regulations, even the prime minister could say tomorrow that the Centre would release funds to one province and not to the other.

Speaking on Karachi's civic issues, he said that similar to the division of Sindh, the metropolis's division was unacceptable as well.

Referring to Karachi as the country's "revenue engine", Kamal said that the city was facing cleanliness and power problems.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2020