The fact that the PPP provincial government had not yet inaugurated a number of projects, nor completed the sewage and road projects should not disguise the fact that the city has avoided the kind of devastation this monsoon as that last year, which had prompted the development package. By ordering implementation through the federal government, he will only revive the controversy that started last year, when the federal and provincial governments engaged in a tug o’ war over who was to control the projects. - Advertisement -Mr Khan should remember that the projects are meant to benefit the people of Karachi, not the particular PTI MNA or MPA through whose constituency a project might pass. He would be well-advised to remember his own dicta about public representatives needing to hold public money as a sacred trust. The Karachi Transformation Package involved large sums, and when such projects are contracted out, contractors are not just willing to pay to be awarded the contract, but public representatives are too often willing to exert their undoubted influence for a consideration.

Source: Pakistan Today August 11, 2021 18:33 UTC