Aminul Haq demands to declare Karachi, Hyderabad as disaster hit areas.

KARACHI -- Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haq on Thursday called for declaring Karachi and Hyderabad as disaster hit areas owing to massive damages inflicted by the recent heavy monsoon rains.

Syed Amin ul Haq, in a statement, said heavy rains had badly affected roads and other infrastructure of both Karachi and Hyderabad, while citizens, especially traders and industrialists suffered losses of billions of rupees.

The situation in the two largest urban centres of Sindh was precarious after heavy monsoon downpour, he said. The two cities should be declared disaster-hit areas, with waiver of the utility bills or provision of subsidy, he stressed.

He thanked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for calling a...