KARACHI: Mutahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Farooq Sattar on Friday warned the Bahadurabad faction it would commit a huge mistake if it proceeded on its own to support Pakistan Peoples Party candidate for Senate chairman. Addressing the media after a meeting at his residence with Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair and other leaders of the PML-N, Sattar said urged the faction that includes most members of the party’s coordination committee to think through their decision. “I am warning everyone that Bahadurabad won’t be given any say in the upper house. I am send them lots of prayers,” he said. Sattar conceded that Rabita Committee-led Bahadurabad group had support of more senators in the upper house of the Parliament than his group. He recalled that PML-N had made commitments for the development of Hyderabad, so his initial concern was to ensure allocation of funds for the city by the federal government. However, he said, it had come to his notice that the funds were released already but there was still delay in the start of development works. Sattar said that the provincial government of Sindh had ruined Karachi’s condition and all development plans prepared for the city had failed. Governor Muhammad Zuabir said, “we have not forgotten our promises. We are working to fulfil them. There are development plans for projects to be funded by the federal government in the pipeline. “We have promised them (Sindh) that there are projects worth Rs25 billion. We have opened the accounts and in a month’s time, we would start the work.” He further added that it is not the federal government’s responsibility to undertake all of these projects, but it was still doing it because it felt a duty towards the largest city of the country. “Farooq Sattar has always stood up for the rights of the people of Karachi. We made sure that the Lyari project is completed, we also made it a point that Greenline public transport project is started.” “The federal government was supposed to plan the infrastructure and its implementation process was PPP’s job, however, they delayed the project. According to the 18th Amendment, it was not our job to do all of this but we did it,” Zubair said. On the construction of Hyderbad University, he said that there’s a lot of work that needs to be done and it is still in progress. Published in Daily Times, March 10th 2018.