KARACHI: Federal Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar has asserted that political parties would get several opportunities for politicking, however, there was a need to work together for development.
“Karachi citizens are looking to the province and the Centre for development in the city,” he said, while addressing a press conference alongside Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah, Federal Information Technology Minister Amin-ul-Haque, and other ministers.
Talking about the Green Line project, Asad Umar claimed that the project was nearing completion and that the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) would be completed before the ML1. “Sindh government has the right to remove encroachments, not the federal government,” he added.
Commenting on the COVID-19 vaccine, he said, “We have not lied to the nation about vaccine procurement. The vaccine will reach Pakistan “by March”.
Meanwhile, taking over the presser, the chief minister shed light on the progress that the provincial government had made so far in Karachi’s developmental works.
The provincial chief informed that the federal and provincial governments, after the Karachi rains that had wreaked havoc in the city, came up with a comprehensive plan to drain water.
“We have started work on the Mehmoodabad nullah, in which 205 houses were broken or completely leveled to clear the nullah,” he informed, adding that the Frontier Works Organisation had started the task, and before monsoon, works on all the nullahs would be completed.
“Now, works will begin on Gujjar Orangi nullah,” he said, adding that the government aimed at fixing the city’s three major nullahs. “So far, the government did not face resistance in removing encroachments from the nullahs,” the chief minister added.
