KATI demands government to allow Syed Mustafa Kamal to continue as City Nazim

“There is a need of change of war strategy because with simple use of bombs and missiles and drone attacks, no army could claim any success in war. Provision of essential facilities and good governance is the key to win the war – Syed Mustafa Kamal”

December 19, 2009
By Irfan Aligi

KARACHI: Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) Patron In-Chief S M Muneer has said that the business community of the city would demand government to allow City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal to continue as City Nazim of Karachi until the next local bodies elections were held.

He was addressing a formal gathering of businessmen on the occasion of a dinner hosted in the honour of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Friday at a local hotel.

Muneer expressed his concern on rampant corruption in public organizations and pointed out that losses in Steel Mills have gone up to Rs 22 billions in just one year. The loss swells upto Rs 5 billion in couples of months in an organization, which was earning profit worth Rs16 billion only a year ago.

He also demanded Supreme Court should take notice of unjustified increase in gas and electricity tariffs and should nullify the rate increased announced by the government on IMF and World Bank’s pressure.

“If apex court intervenes in sugar prices it should also take notice of ever-increasing prices of utilities”, commented Muneer.

Earlier, Hashim Razzak Paracha in his welcome address said that the city needs more infrastructure reforms and for this purpose all factions of the society should join hands with city nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal.

He said that work speaks louder than words and Kamal’s work is evident that how much progress has been done in Karachi.

While addressing the audience, Kamal said that city of Karachi has served to be the frontline as regards to revenue generation for the country as it extends upto 70 percent of entire national revenue. City’s development has ensured economic stability and has added to the prosperity across the country.

Kamal also pointed out that the city was the main gateway to the newly freed estates to the North while the supplies to the allied forces engaged in combating the extremist that have posed threats to global peace were securely managed from this city. Thus the city’s strategic role could not be ignored and any step to curtail its development would prove fatal for the country as well as the entire world.

It would be absolutely impossible for the international forces fighting against the extremist whether in Afghanistan to eliminate the roots of terrorism to maintain peace and harmony unless the citizens were not provided with opportunities for a better tomorrow, which could only be possible through good governance and provision of better essential facilities.

The key to win peoples’ hearts is in providing them what they need for a better and respectable livelihood, claimed Kamal.

There is a need of change of war strategy because with simple use of bombs and missiles and drone attacks, no army could claim any success in war, warned Kamal.

NWFP and Balochistan are burning because of terrorism and Punjab too is not stable due to terrorism and only Sindh especially Karachi is politically stable and that has been possible due to Muttahidda Qaumi Movement’s strategy of good governance, claimed Kamal.

“We have given good governance to the people of Karachi, which is heart of country’s commercial and industrial activities and tried our best to maintain law and order due to which economy is prospering”, Kamal said.

Kamal said that his performance was obvious to everyone. We provided water supply to even those areas, which did not have access to the drinking water even before partition. This is the good governance, which has maintained peace and tranquility in citizens’ lines and has helped prevent producing suicide bombers.

Kamal lauded the business community for separating the genuine from non-genuine instead of praising everyone in power.

KATI’s Sub Committee Chairman on Civic Issues, Shaikh Afzal Husain also spoke on the occasion.