Re: Where are they now???
BTW, Islamabad and Lahore were not far from Karachi. I am saying this just to darken up your day.
One of the reasons Karachi did not rank well was the environmental conditions. For the size of the city, there should have already been a light rail and subway system in Karachi. But thanks to Karachi-haters like … it still does not exist. Thus Karachi has to rely on buses and mini-buses which cause a lot more pollution in the city. And when someone try to control this situation then it becomes an ethnic issue. Because most transport is in the hands of Pashtun and Punjabi.
“The city has the biggest challenges in the transport and air quality categories, where it ranks well below the average.
“In these categories, **it is marked down particularly for lacking a superior public transport network, such as metro lines, bus rapid transit system or trams **and for high average daily concentrations of the three air pollutants evaluated in the index.” Nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and suspended particulate matter remains the three major air pollutants in Karachi, it added.
Karachi’s main challenges include vehicle emissions, industrial pollution and open burning. The city remains vulnerable because its environment policies are not comprehensive, it said.
So now that we know transport is one of the biggest problems of Karachi, do you know which party is actively working to improve this situation? It is MQM. No one else cares for the city.
The MQM had raised the issue of Karachi Mass Transit Project through a call attention notice in the National Assembly on Thursday by raising questions why the project was kept pending when the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) was ready for funding and even the Railways Ministry was also supporting the project.
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Hina Rabbani said at present the JICA was carrying out the assessment and feasibility study of the project, which was likely to be completed by June this year. “After that, JICA’s study for corridors of funding for the project would start. It would enable us to start work on the project, which is worth over one billion US dollars,” she said.
However,** the question of MQM legislators remained unanswered, who repeatedly asked how many feasibility reports will be made**.