KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has denied the reports of an agreement between Karachi’s political parties on the city’s issues and said that the stakeholders had only talked about forming a committee.
Addressing a press conference today (Monday) at CM House, CM Murad said, “There was talk of forming of a committee but there has been no agreement yet.”
However, the Chief Minister clarified that the committee will only have members of the government and not from political parties. “I will always follow the party policy, which is that everything will be handled according to law,” he added.
Hinting at the Foreign Minister’s statement regarding Saudi Arabia, He said that the federal government was talking about the issues of Karachi to hide its failures at the international failure.
“The situation of Karachi and other cities had been the same more or less because of the current spell of rains that had hit the country,” he asserted. “The point of assigning NDMA for Karachi was to show that there were more rains,” he added.
The Chief Minister also said that his government’s stance was very simple which was to follow the Constitution. “The federal government’s failure was affecting all provinces,” he concluded.
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