Bilawal opens 100mgd pump house at Dhabeji.

Byline: Hasan Mansoor

KARACHI -- Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari inaugurated on Tuesday a new pumping station of 100 million gallons per day (mgd) at Dhabeji. Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and others accompanied him while he was unveiling the plaque.

The PPP chairman asked the Sindh government to construct Haleji Lake Road for the convenience of the people of the area and visitors. After unveiling the plaque of the pumping station, he visited the complex and was briefed by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board managing director.

Speaking on the occasion, he said the topmost issue for the people of Sindh was the availability of safe drinking water when his party went to the masses and gathered their demands.

The new pumping station would help allay the water woes of the people of Karachi while water would also be supplied to Thatta, Sujawal and Gharo from there, he said.

'Similar projects aimed at improving infrastructure have been initiated elsewhere in Sindh,' said the PPP leader. He said new lines had been laid on thousands of kilometres in the province.

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Mr Bhutto-Zardari appreciated CM Shah declaring that he was the 'most efficient' chief minister in the country.

Murad Ali Shah said the Council of Common Interests' meeting was not summoned within a year and when it was called its minutes were delayed and when the minutes were finally released they were deliberately written in a 'manipulative' manner to further delay the implementation of the decisions taken in the meeting.

'This is how things are moving but even then we will continue to struggle to get the due rights of the people of Sindh,' he said.

Provincial ministers Saeed Ghani, Syed Nasir Shah and Murtaza Baloch; advisers Murtaza Wahab and Aijaz Shah Shirazi; senior officials and party workers of Thatta, Sujawal and Karachi attended the ceremony.

Mr Shah said that after a hue and cry for over a year, a CCI meeting was convened. The minutes of the meeting were delayed for around one month and when the minutes were released, he found them 'hotchpotch', thus, he sent them back after necessary corrections.

He thanked Mr Bhutto-Zardari who, within a month, inaugurated the third phase of the development schemes and projects.

'You had inaugurated roads and underpasses in Karachi twice within 15 days and now after another two weeks you have inaugurated the newly established 100mgd pumping house,' he said.

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