KARACHI: Former Governor Sindh, Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan ponders an active return to politics as he has started contacting prominent political players as well as stakeholders of Karachi.
This he said while talking to a private news channel.
Dr Ebad was asked him to actively take part in Karachi politics and return to Pakistan ahead of and after the 2018 general elections. Ebad didn’t go into detail about what offers and assurances have been given to him but he talked in detail about his time as the longest-serving governor of Sindh.
The former Sindh governor is credited for playing a key role in bringing stability and peace to Karachi. Dr Ebad became the interface between the law enforcement agencies and the political powers, who coordinated the execution of the strategy.
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Dr Ebad said the Karachi operation got full support of the Centre as soon as the PMLN came to power in 2013. He also emphasised that massive infrastructure development is essentially important and simultaneously took Nawaz Sharif’s passion for development as an opportunity.
Dr Ebad said: “In one meeting, I told Mian Sahib that you are not only the Prime Minister of Punjab but Pakistan and that Karachi also deserves a mass transit system.
He asked me to meet him again. In the next meeting, he got convinced and immediately approved the Green line, M-9 Motorway and Malir Expressway and the work started. His support for the Karachi operation and development was decisive.”
