Syed Mustafa Kamal’s speech is now viral on social media.
Islamabad:
Pakistani lawmaker Syed Mustafa Kamal drew a comparability between India’s achievements and the precarious state of affairs in Karachi, by mentioning India’s moon touchdown mission. The Muttahida Quami Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) chief stated that whereas India is touchdown on the moon, Karachi is making information of kids being killed by falling in open gutters.
“Today, the condition in Karachi is that, while the world is going to the moon, children are dying by falling into gutter in Karachi. On the same screen, there is news that India landed on the moon, and just after two seconds, the news is that a child died in an open gutter in Karachi,” Kamal stated in his tackle to the Parliament on Wednesday.
He additional highlighted the shortage of contemporary water in Karachi. The MQM-P chief additionally stated citing a report that there are 70 lakh youngsters in Karachi and over 2.6 crore youngsters in Pakistan, who are usually not in a position to go to varsities.
“Karachi is the revenue engine of Pakistan. The two seaports operational in Pakistan since its inception, are both in Karachi. We (Karachi) are the gateway to the entire Pakistan, Central Asia to Afghanistan…For 15 years, Karachi was not given even a bit of fresh water. Even the water that came, the tanker mafia hoarded it and sold it to the people of Karachi,” Kamal stated.
“We have a total of 48,000 schools, but a new report says that out of that 11,000 are ‘ghost schools’. 70 lakh children in Sindh don’t go to school and a total of 2,62,00,000 children in the country don’t go to school…if we just focus on this, the leaders of the country shouldn’t even get proper sleep,” the Pakistani Parliamentarian added.
In August final 12 months, India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander grew to become the primary spacecraft from the nation to soundly attain the lunar floor in August 2023.
India additionally grew to become the primary nation on the planet to land on the South Pole of the moon.
Meanwhile, Pakistan — which is grappling with financial misery, excessive inflation, and mounting debt — is in search of a brand new mortgage programme from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) below the Extended Fund Facility (EFF).
A crew of the worldwide lender is at the moment in Pakistan to carry talks on the problem. It has urged Islamabad to carry “strong cost-side reforms” to revive the viability of the nation’s vitality sector, reported ARY News. It has additionally urged an ‘overhaul’ of its tax system.
Last month, Pakistan accomplished a short-term USD 3 billion program, that helped stave off sovereign default, nevertheless, the federal government has highlighted the necessity for a contemporary, longer-term program, in keeping with Dawn.
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