Despite supplying 60pc gas to federation, Sindh bears gas load-shedding, deplores Wahab.

KARACHI -- Karachi Administrator, Sindh government Spokesperson and CM Advisor on Law Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Saturday said that he will give good news to the people of Karachi next month regarding Karachi Circular Railway (KCR).

'In KP and Punjab, there is no gas load-shedding, while in Sindh, despite gas production in the province, there is load-shedding, which has badly affected the industries. We have to own Karachi. We all should work together for the development of this city,' the administrator expressed these views while addressing the industrialists and business community at FPCCI.

On the occasion, the officials of FPCCI and the industrial community expressed their gratitude to the administrator Karachi Barrister Murtaza Wahab said that this city had seen good times and bad times, but once again we are trying to restore the lights of Karachi city. The master plan of Karachi should not have been changed during Naimatullah Khan's era and commercialisation increased.

'Then Mustafa Kamal also did the same and the courts also declared these decisions as correct but today we all are suffering the consequences of those decisions. Now, the court said the same that commercialisation should not happen,' he added.

He said that the problems of Jodia Bazar and other commercial centres were pointed out, adding that he will go there himself. 'When the government makes a policy, someone gets up and goes to court, someone reaches NAB. Along with politicians, bureaucracy and judiciary also have to correct themselves. Calling someone mafia will not change the system,' the administrator added.

Barrister Murtaza Wahab said that transport was one area in which we had to move forward, adding that now modern buses have come and are plying across the city. He said that in coming days long lasting transport problems will be solved through biogas technology. He said...

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