KARACHI - Governor Sindh Imran Ismail on Tuesday said people have high hopes with Prime Minister and the government is taking every possible step for socio-economic uplift of the nation.
“With the execution of Karachi package, main issues of this mega city would be resolved and Karachiites would have better environment”, he said.
For the uplift of Karachi, the development schemes were devised and approved after due consultation with all the stakeholders of the city, he said in a call on meeting with a three-member delegation of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) at the Governor House. Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan was pursuing his vision of carrying out development throughout the country, he said and added that the federal government wanted to take all parties along.
The delegation was comprised of the MQM-P’s central leaders including Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Kanwer Naveed Jamil and former city mayor Waseem Akhtar. Sindh president, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Haleem Adil Sheikh and MPA (PTI) Khurram Sher Zaman were also present in the meeting.
Prime Minister’s Karachi package, other development projects financed by the federal government in the province mainly in Karachi, and various issues of public interest were discussed in the meeting.
MQM-P and PTI members expressed their resentment over non-inclusion/consultation on the recent appointment of the administrator Karachi.
‘Christians playing important role in national progress’
Governor Sindh Imran Ismail on Tuesday said Christians were playing important role in the national progress, economic prosperity and social services.
“Christian community was playing a leading role in education, health and many other important sectors”, he said.
In a call on meeting with a three-member delegation of Christian community, led by Saleem Michael Advocate, he assured that their issues would be resolved at the earliest. In Pakistan, he added, minorities enjoyed complete religious freedom and equal citizen rights. The delegation discussed various matters with the governor mainly concerned with security on the eve of Christmas falling on Dec. 25. The Governor felicitated Christmas to Christian community in advance.