SBCA earns a bad name due to illegal constructions, concedes LG minister
July 7, 2021
Sindh Information and Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has conceded that the entire institution of the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) has earned a bad name due to the issue of illegal constructions in the province.
He made this admission while chairing a meeting of the authority in Karachi on Tuesday. The minister asked the SBCA officials to speed up action against illegal constructions, assuring them that the government would provide utmost assistance in this regard.
A mass campaign should be launched against illegal constructions in the province, he said, directing the SBCA officials to implement the relevant decisions of the Supreme Court in letter and spirit.
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Call for collaboration resounds at Safe Karachi Conference
July 5, 2021
Candid political jabs were exchanged between Miftah Ismail of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Senator Faisal Subzwari of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) during the Safe Karachi Conference at a hotel in Karachi on Sunday, while the K-Electric seemed to have been given a clean chit.
The PML-N and MQM leaders put all the blame on the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), while the other speakers kept talking about the problems of Karachi and asserting that they did not want to get political.
At one point in the conference, Subzwari expressed resentment towards the courts of the country, and said that as a political party they could only talk against pieces of legislation being passed in the assembly but they could not ask the people to vote for them at gunpoint.
Sindh Governor Imran Ismail speaks at the Safe Karachi conference. Photo by writer
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail has said that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have their own ways of looking at things that may keep projects in Karachi moving ahead.
He was speaking at the ‘Safe Karachi’ conference organised by the Corporate Pakistan Group at a local hotel on Sunday to create awareness about the challenges faced by Karachi and focus on the key problems faced by the city’s administration, residents, service providers and businesses.
“A Karachi I grew up in was a clean and vibrant city. It was a different city. People used to come from all over the county to see Karachi. Then we also saw Karachi nose diving. There were thefts happening here, murders happening here. The lawlessness saw the departure of industry from here. Big business houses also left Karachi,” the governor said.
MQM still trying to set Mohajirs against Sindhis, claims Saeed Ghani
July 2, 2021
Sindh’s labour minister on Thursday accused the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) of continuing to make attempts to set the Mohajir residents of the province against Sindhis.
Saeed Ghani, who is also the provincial education minister, was addressing a news conference along with Information and Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah. “If they [MQM leaders] maintain the same policy as that of [MQM founder] Altaf Hussain, what difference does it make if Altaf Hussain is no longer in the picture?” wondered Ghani, who is also the Karachi president for Sindh’sruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).