re: Violence in Karachi [all threads merged]
I would say make Karachi a separate province. Problems arise because of the control of Karachi by Sindhi speaking people, who are as much foreigners in Karachi as someone from Lahore or Quetta. They only use Karachi to fill up their pockets but don’t care at all about its problems. In this last budget Karachi was allocated 2 billion rupees, which is the same amount allocated to little places like Nawabshah and Larkana.
Those in Sindh government don’t even want to acknowledge the true population of Karachi. To them the city still has 7 million people when actually it is close to 20 million.
So if population is more than double than official estimates then the resources they give to the city are bound to be very short of the requirement. And this will create friction and resentment among people.
And that’s what’s happening.
To save Karachi, the city needs to get out of the hold of PPP Sindh. Karachi needs to be a province.