Karachi has been held hostage by the garbage mafia. With the removal of garbage from the city, several factories will be shutdown. The city’s marine life is being rapidly vanishing as 600 Million Gallon water per Day (MGD) is dumped in the sea untreated, which is also causing trouble for the Pakistan Navy.
There’s a solution to every problem of this city. However, due to lack of coordination and support between the provincial and local governments, the issues of this city are getting complicated.
The senior anchorperson Hamid Mir conducted his programme ‘Capital Talk’ in Karachi and visited the city’s areas littered with foul-smelling garbage along with Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar and Sindh Minister for Local Government Saeed Ghani. Both of them did not own responsibility for the woes of this city, however, Pakistani singer and social activist Shehzad Roy and architect Shahid Abdullah and Vice-Admiral Syed Arifullah Hussaini presented solutions to the problems of this city. They shared that the city has the capacity to generate funds itself and resolve its issues. On the other hand, Ghani pointed out that his officers were afraid of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Wasim Akhtar said that water is supplied to this city through water tankers, not through water lines of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB). He highlighted how the water supply is being mismanaged in the city and how necessary it has become to get rid of the tanker mafia. He also pointed out that the infrastructure of KWSB should be improved.
He termed the KWSB ‘illegal’. In his show, Mir also presented the version of citizens and those officers who provide water to the citizens. The inhabitants of the city told Mir how they get water at exorbitant rates.
