Bilawal wants PM to unveil 'inclusive package' for Karachi's rehabilitation.

KARACHI: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Friday hoped that Prime Minister Imran Khan will announce a comprehensive reconstruction and rehabilitation package for Karachi and Sindh when he arrives in the city on Saturday (today).

Addressing a press conference at CM House along with Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, provisional ministers Saeed Ghani, Nasir Hussain Shah and Nisar Khurro, Bilawal believed that the federal government will join hands with the Sindh government to help out people who had suffered from the recent spell of torrential rains in Sindh. "I hope Prime Minister Imran Khan will also take back his statement that the Sindh government is responsible for the destruction caused by monsoon rains," he went on to say. "Even the army chief has acknowledged that no city in Pakistan can cope with a natural calamity of this scale," he maintained.

Bilawal said if the federal government matches the Rs 800 billion package for Karachi, it would solve the problems of the metropolis 'to a great extent'. While he appreciated the federal government for showing seriousness as regards to investing in Karachi for its infrastructure and development, the PPP chief maintained that it was the right of Sindh to get its share of funds from the Centre. "Those who taunt us by saying that we will not give Sindh its due share of funds, they should understand that this is not their father's money," he said. "These are funds that belong to the people of Sindh. They use money from the people of Sindh to run their government and the Centre," he added.

Bilawal urged federal ministers to desist from taunts and also advised the Centre to help people from every province and city regardless of who was the chief minister there. "You have to support people from every province," he added.

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