Karachi may be getting two more districts: Wasim Akhtar

Karachi Mayor Wasim Akhtar says the Sindh government is planning to form two more districts in Karachi under the name of making amendments to the Local Government Act.

He was speaking at a seminar about Karachi’s civic issues
organised by the All City Tajir Ittehad at a hotel in Karachi on Friday.

Akhtar slammed the PPP-led Sindh government and said it has
destroyed Karachi by dividing one district into six more districts.

“Now they are planning to form the Lyari and Gadap districts
too,” he said.

The government has already converted the Karachi Building
Control Authority into the Sindh Building Control Authority, he said, adding that
it has retained the tax collection departments under its control as well.

Akhtar said that political parties have not made a uniform
local government act in 70 years. This continuous change in the system has
devastated Karachi.

He asked the traders community to come forward and play
their role in making the Local Government Act for Karachi.

“The Sindh government said that it working on making
amendments to the 2013 Act and it will be finalised soon,” Akhtar said.

The Karachi mayor said that the traders should ask the
provincial government what kinds of amendments are being made.    

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