This video should be seen by CJ and decide how mayor of Karachi is better than other goons? As regard development of Karachi read as follows:
Our honorable CJ should read this then offer comments. Though the report is not current one but still applicable.
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Reverting to the subject again and again is no problem. The problems that afflict Karachi are devastating. The chances of Pakistan economy receiving more foreign or domestic investments remain slim. The city is, for the most part, dysfunctional. That it somehow carries on is a tribute to the peoples’ fortitude and their capacity to take almost any inconvenience or indignity in their stride. They have no option too.
Karachi is primarily a port city. This port is the lifeline of Pakistan economy; it is likely to remain the only one for commercial purposes for many more years to come, if not forever. The primacy thus goes to the port installations, their efficiency and the conditions in and around the port. It is a highly topical subject what with the oil slick and other problems of the pollution of the sea around that has gone on unchecked ever since Pakistan came into being. Long before the oil spill from Tasman Spirit, the water around the port for some 20-25 miles around was among the most polluted waters in the world. Doubtless the oil spill still requires more clean ups immediately that have to be on a war footing. But that is neither simple or single operation.
Karachi has two other functions: it is a gateway to the watery economic zone in the Arabian Sea that belongs to Pakistan. The second aspect is that it is a biggest centre of fishing industries where a very large number of people earn their living by catching fish, processing and selling them. And of course fish food exports, now suspended, one fears for some years, will have to resume one day after the rest of the world is confident that Pakistani food exports are safe to consume. It is our problem number one to clean up 32 to 40 thousand tonnes of oil that has actually been spilled into the sea. The effects are likely to remain for at least half a dozen years or more. We can be sure that no seafood exports can resume on any scale before these six or seven years during which the sea will have to be thoroughly cleaned up. The cleaning up is for a purpose: it is to ensure that sea life goes on uncontaminated and stays healthy.
Along the way the sea itself needs to be cleaned up. One is not suggesting dredging up or any fancy method of cleaning. It is to ensure untreated effluents from various industries, particularly from chemical and leather industries, should not be allowed to fall into the sea. Which problem dovetails into the even larger issue of what to do with Karachi’s sewerage water and hard waste that go on adding to the city’s filth? The municipality, and now local government, had the function of safely and healthily disposing of both the sewerage and the hard waste. Almost all modern cities have landfills and recycling industries based on them. Doubtless, a primitive recycling system has already grown up in Karachi and Heavens be thanked for it. But it is small and chaotic. The state has to monitor and suggest a benign combination of pvivate and public sectors to tackle this whole problem.
As it is, Karachi is among the filthiest towns of the world. Your go to any middle class and upper class colony, let alone the lower class localities, piles upon piles of hard waste are accumulating everywhere. The local government’s transport for the purpose is either woefully inadequate or it is being misused on a large scale. On is told that both statements are true. People in the country go on all the time expending on the theme of Islamic civilisation and culture. What seems to stand out in Karachi about this civilisation is its fifth and accumulated mountains of hard waste. Not only simple mountains. These are being spread over all available space on or near the roads from where different kinds of waste material are picked up, such as bottles, tins, papers or plastics. These items in demand are carried either on a transport or on shoulders to the private sector shops that buy and sell these items. It is a recycling industry already but it is too primitive. It contributes littering of the whole area around areas where hard wastes are dumped and not lifted regularly. All parts of the city have become dirtier than they had ever been before. It is a scandal that no government worth the name should tolerate.
There is a lot of pilaff being spewed out constantly about corruption. The question is does anyone take notice of it. There is the case of Karachi’s spillage of the oil. Aren’t some officials guilty of complacence, negligence and tardiness? For full 15 to 20 days virtually little was done. There is some turf warfare also going on. All of it may not fall under the category of corruption. But it is certainly its sister; inefficiency.
**Then there is the telltale case of the roads. Several new roads were built during the course of the last year and even in this calendar year. This year’s somewhat heavier rains have destroyed most roads. It is an all too familiar phenomenon. People have been talking of it for long. Roads built six months ago become virtually non-existent after one respectable shower. Everybody has talked about it but no one has done anything about **
When a road is built a certain amount of paper work is done. The roads have categories. They are supposed to have a foundation and some other stages and then the final one of carpeting. Now that the carpets on most roads have disappeared, has any authority-central, provincial or local-investigated whether any particular road was ever built according to the standards written in the documents pertaining to that road? After all, the contract-giving authority does impose specifications that the contractor has to achieve. Now that the carpets are not there, why could it not be studied as to which roads were not built according to the specifications and those who charged money for a road of different specification should now be hauled up. Many heads should roll. Here are cases that can be proven by expert testimony. We can have engineers from other cities or preferably foreigners to pinpoint the areas where obvious corruption had taken place. The bribe giver and the brine take should, as a result of the evidence available on the road, should be punished through whatever legal process the higher judicial authorities can recommend.
There is the whole vast field of health-related matter of water and sewerage works that need to be investigated and modernised. Modernisation does not mean import of fancy machinery. It means using local brains to tackle local problems, with cost effective technology to be developed locally. There are organisations that do R and D, not to mention institutions like PCSIR or the bodies that try to develop other technologies. Pakistan has in fact exported water filtration plants to different countries 25 years ago. Why can’t Pakistanis filter their own water more efficiently and lay out mains that do not leak so frequently. The same treatment that is required for the roads should be applied with suitable changes to whatever works have been build by Water and Sewerage Board. The point is there should be actual accountability of those who are responsible for works all that are essential to the health and well being of the people.
One has not talked of education, recreation facilities and so forth. We have local governments now in place; we have provincial governments in place; one has also not talked of law and order without which no economic capital can attract investments.
And here is the glimpse of current working of this mayor:
http://rightnreal.com/failure-of-mustafa-kamal-devastating-rain-effects-in-karachi/comment-page-1/
It’s easy to bask in glory by putting fear of God in the people and by erecting flyovers throughout city which tend to either collapse or have large holes in the middle of them after couple of months of their grand inauguration. Its easy to deliver speeches and to praise the Altaf Hussain Bhai like parrot and its easy to enjoy on the people’s money.
But it’s quite another venture when the test comes in the real manner. When the time came for the real management of Karachi, Mustafa Kamal the blue-eyed boy of MQM failed like hell. His all tall claims, showy efficiency and arrogance got wiped out with the torrent rains, which crippled the Karachi and still couple of days after rain, Karachi suffers. So much for the City District Government and its Nazim-e-Ala.
The total collapse of the city infrastructure in the immediate aftermath of the downpour speaks volumes about the capabilities and abilities of this Nazim who is so quick to send accumulated Bhatta to Pir of London. Had he spent a fraction of that Bhatta on Karachi drainage system, we would have been living in much better situation.