Sindh govt behind delay in K-4 water project: Haleem Adil.

KARACHI -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice President and parliamentary party leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh has said that the Sindh government, itself, is behind the delay in K-4 water project because it wants to punish the Karachiites for not giving vote to the PPP.

Addressing a press conference in Insaf House here on Sunday, flanked by PTI leaders Hunaid Lakhani, Sumair Mir Sheikh and others, he said the PPP had made Karachi a Katchra Kundi. He said the Karachiites were being punished for not giving vote to the PPP. He further said the PPP had also not spared Larkana, despite the people of Larkana had given vote to it, but they were given no facilities.

He said the Sindh Chief Minister claimed that the Prime Minister had got stopped the K-4 project. He said the fact was that the PPP government was behind the delay in this project, in which a huge corruption was made. He said the K-4 could have easily been completed in Rs75billion, but it was still left incomplete. He said due to water shortage megacity Karachi depicted a Karbala. He said many Karachiites could not find even drinking water. He said in four months the government of Sindh had not got approved the K-4 project from cabinet, which was a shame.

Haleem Adil said apart from Karachi, the PPP government had ruined Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur, Larkana and other cities and towns. He said no development schemes were made for the urban areas of Sindh.

He said three major hospitals of Karachi had been with the Federal government since their beginning. He said the federal government had never asked that the Sindh government should pay their expenditures of past 50 years. He said now Sindh health minister asked that federal government should return the amount the provincial government spent on these hospitals. He asked had the provincial government spent money on these hospitals from the personal accounts of Zardari or Omni Group. He said it was public money and spent on public service institutions. He expressed sadly the Sindh government had burdened the NICVD with loans of Rs16billion.

Haleem Adil said in this Sindh budget nothing was tagged for any mega scheme in Karachi and PTI rejected this anti-people budget. He said Rs100billion were tagged for non-developmental sector, and this money was tagged for corruption of rulers. He told that expenses for CM House and helicopter travel were increased, in 12 long years the Sindh...

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