KARACHI: Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar expressed his disappointment at not being invited to the inauguration of Jahangir Park on Monday night. He specifically raised his questions towards Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah asking how such an event could have taken place without him.
“I wanted to be there to inaugurate [Jahangir Park],” Akhtar lamented, upset that he was neither informed of the event nor called as the chief guest to open the new place to the public.
The Karachi mayor was speaking at the concluding event of a 50-day, Bahria Town-sponsored cleaning campaign in the city’s Central District.
“I’m upset that I was not invited,” Akhtar stated, “I should get these funds to utilise them. This is the job of the KMC (Karachi Metropolitan Corporation).”
“Our priority was to make sure Karachi receives an uninterrupted supply of water, but we haven’t been able to get our hands out of the garbage yet.”
Akhtar told the audience that approximately 200,000 tonnes worth of garbage was cleared from the aforementioned area. The audience included the district’s chairman and vice chairman as well as parliamentarians of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P).
“The ball is now in the Governor House’s court,” he said in a metaphorical reference to the ‘Karachi Package’.