Garbage lifting politics turned dirty: CM.

KARACHI -- Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the PPP government is working with heart and soul in the city to redress the problems of garbage lifting and improvement of sewerage system despite the fact we [PPP] have no local [bodies] mandate in the city.

'The people of this city have given mandate to MQM-P but they and their partners [PTI] instead of redressing public problems are fighting like wrestlers in the ring- this kind of politics where filthy language is used for lifting of filth is unprecedented.'

This he said on Wednesday while talking to a delegation of Karachi Industrial Forum (KIF) comprising Zain Bashir President of LATI, Khursheed Ahmed President FBATI, Saleem Parekh President SITE, Mohammad Ilyas President BQATI and others. Minister Labour Saeed Ghani, Minister Local Government Nasir Shah, Minister Industries Ikram Dharejo, Advisor to CM Murtaza Wahab, PSCM Sajid Jamal Abro, Commissioner Karachi Iftikhar Shahalwani and other concerned officers.

Shah said that he had given special focus to the development of the city. 'We have constructed flyovers, underpasses and reconstructed the roads with drainage system even then MQM friends were levelling baseless allegation that we have not given ownership to this city,' he lamented and said he was born here and has given much more ownership to Karachi than anybody else here.

Murad Shah said that he was striving hard to construct K-IV project but due to technical reasons and the project was going to be late. 'We are working on its technical aspects and would resolve them to complete the project,' he assured.

The KIF delegation complained that the water charges have been increased by 29 percent which was unfair with the industrialists. At this Labour minister Saeed Ghani said that from 2017 water charges had not been increased. He added that as per law the water board was empowered to increase water charges every year by 9 percent.

The chief minister directed Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Shah to hold a meeting with the KIF delegation and resolve their issues on top priority basis. 'The PPP government in Sindh is working for establishment of new industrial states and improvement of the infrastructure of the existing ones, therefore we have to provide them maximum facilities and avoid to exert more financial pressures on their business,' he said and directed Nasir...