KARACHI: The Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh, on Wednesday described Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s claims of winning elections from Karachi as daydreaming and said that the PPP had not provided any facility to the metropolis in the past 13 years.
Mr Sheikh, in a statement, said that the PPP, during its 13-year-long government in Sindh, could not run a single bus in Karachi nor did it add one additional drop to the water supply system of the largest city of the country.
The people of Sindh were well aware of the performance of the PPP and in the next election not only Karachi, but the entire province would reject those who were dreaming of election victory on the basis of dismal performance and prolonged poor governance in Sindh, he said.
Mr Sheikh also refuted a statement of Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari that not a single rupee was spent out of Rs1,100 billion package and termed it an irresponsible statement.
He said that the PPP chairman had portrayed only one side of the picture and he was right to the extent that the Sindh government had not spent even a rupee in this regard.
Federal government’s share in the package was 62 per cent while remaining 38pc was the share of the Sindh government, Mr Sheikh said and added that the federal government was spending Rs35bn on Orangi, Mehmoodabad, and Gujjar nullahs and 80pc work had been completed.
Track of Green Line was complete while buses were on their way to Karachi, he said and expressed the hope that the Green Line service would be on the roads in September this year.
Significant progress was recorded on two other transport sector projects, freight terminal and Karachi Circular Railway, as well, he added.
Work on another important project for bulk supply of water to Karachi K-4 has been expedited after handing over the project to Wapda, Haleem Sheikh observed.