December 10, 2009
By Irfan Aligi
KARACHI: The people in Pakistan have not been provided with basic facilities despite 62 years of independence have completed. As a nation, they have been entangled in various problems that led to serious frustration. Subsequently, they preferred being suicide bomber. In order to prevent them from becoming suicide bombers, their basic problems should be resolved without further delay.
KARACHI: The people in Pakistan have not been provided with basic facilities despite 62 years of independence have completed. As a nation, they have been entangled in various problems that led to serious frustration. Subsequently, they preferred being suicide bomber. In order to prevent them from becoming suicide bombers, their basic problems should be resolved without further delay.
City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has expressed these views while addressing a luncheon, which senior journalist Majeed Abbasi had given in his honour at a local hotel on Thursday.
Kamal warned any further delay to address peoples’ grievances would ignite the whole of the population to become hostile and their frustration would be tantamount to devastating destruction as that of suicide bombers.
Kamal said people have entered a stage of utter despondency today as they witness growing problems as regards to lack of health and education facilities and escalating unemployment alongwith price-hike at its apex.
The frustration thus has entered into people’s lives with a primary manifest of self-immolation while the second phase would be completely suicidal.
Kamal claimed that the Haq Parast leadership has through a policy of reaching the citizens of the city ensured prevention of citizens from becoming suicide bombers. The policy has governed the city and has cultivated peace and tranquility among different communities here in the city as the citizens have been exposed to huge canvas of facilities and above all they have been provided direct access to opportunities for the livelihood.
The pragmatic mechanism of addressing citizens’ grievances and allowing them to find their share has paved ways for the prevention.
Kamal said that the four-year spell was not a bed of roses for the Haq Parasts of the city as they knew what was lying ahead so they strived round the clock, 7-days a week so as to create a different look of the city and appease the anguish of the citizens. Lack of unity of command was still a big hurdle that hampered city’s development.
“We, the Haq Parasts are confident that we have done the best as the citizens have laid their trust on the Haq Parasts and have grossly appreciated our sincere efforts to have worked for the development of the city with clear objective that providing them with basic civic facilities would remove frustration”, vowed Kamal.
Kamal pointed out that that there were tremendous problems of all types during his four-year tenure but with the will were overcome to ensure city’s development for the sake of the people. One such example of development is the CDGK Cadet College in Gadap town has completed 80 percent construction work while many Goths in its vicinity have been allowed to use facilities of water and sanitation at the CDGK’s cost.
All Pakistan Newspaper Society’s (APNS) President Qazi Aslam, APNS Vice President Qazi Asad Abid, Dr Karim Rajper, NARA Director General Tuaha Farooqi, Mehmood Sham, Columnist Agha Masood, Khalil Ahmed Nenitalwala, Abbas Mehkri, Khushnood Ali Khan, Mujahid Barelvi, Habib Khan Ghori, Faisal Aziz, Mudassir Mirza, Dr Huma Mir, Dr S A Siddiqui, Javed Iqbal, Anwar Ahmed Zai and others attended.
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