Daily Times

KARACHI: PPP’s Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that it has proved in the JIT report that the the Prime Minister and his family have committed corruption forgery, perjury, and attempt to subvert justice which are serious crimes.

He said this while addressing the inauguration ceremony of Munawar Suherwardi Underpass constructed on Shahrah-i-Faisal at Drigh Road today.

The JIT report has been declared in which it has been proved that the PM and his family have committed serious crimes of fraud, forgery, perjury and have also attempted to subvert justice. “Now we are waiting for the verdict of the Supreme Court,” he said and hoped justice would be done.

He voiced the slogs of `muk gaya tera show Nawaz- go Nawaz go Nawaz’; your show has come to an end now you should step down; and the party workers present there followed the course.

The chairman said that he was very happy to inaugurate the underpass named after Munwar Suherwardi. He was big in the politics of Karachi and also in people of Pakistan. Munawar Suherwardi had rendered a lot sacrifices for restoration of democracy in Pakistan

PPP has been constructing underpasses, overhead bridges and roads in the city. “Now the problem of cleanliness of the city is also being addressed,” whatever development has been carried out in the city has been done by PPP whether it may the tenure of Shaheed Bhutto or Shaheed Mohterma Benazir Bhutto or Asif Ali Zardari and now of the incumbent chief minister.

Bilawal Bhutto said that his government in Sindh would be serving the people of Karachi sincerely and with dedication.

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while addressing on the occasion announced to reconstruct Drig Road Flyover. “I think its alignment is defective, therefore it would be reconstructed with a new alignment”.

He congratulated the people of Karachi who had elected Saeed Ghani from PS-114. “It is your confidence and support that PPP has won election from Malir Hakeem Baloch, Murtaza Baloch and Saeed Ghani- this is because we serve you to the best of our capacity and ability,” he said.

He apologized to the people of Karachi for the hardships caused by the construction work on the underpass. You would also be facing the same problems when the Drig Road Flyover would be reconstructed, he said.

Chief Minister Sindh, Murad Ali Shah, said that the portion of Shahrah-i-Faisal from Metropole to Airport would be completed shortly while the portion from airport to Steel Mills would be ready by the end of next month and again “I would bother the chairman to inaugurate them”.

A debate on social media has started that the Munawar Suherwardi Underpass has no drainage system. “I am clarifying to everyone that the underpass has an efficient drainage system and rain water would not accumulate into it,” he said.

On the complaint of some of the party workers, the chief minister said that he would remove the officers who are found lethargic and inefficient in completion of development works in progress in the city. As far as quality is concerned, he said he was himself monitoring it.

Shah said that on the instruction of party President Asif Zardari and Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Sindh government would be serving people of Sindh. He hoped that in 2018 election PPP would emerge as the largest party in Karachi.

Local Government Minister Jam Khan Shoro in his speech high lighted the projects and schemes in progress in the city.

Earlier, the Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari unveiled the plague to inaugurate the underpass constructed for Rs 660 million within a period of less than four months.

Published in Daily Times, July 23^rd , 2017.