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tegeek | 5 years ago

Since early 1980s, Karachi city is not under PPP govt. So it really doesn't matter how corrupt Pakistan Peoples Party is, Karachi has not been voting for them for nearly 40 years now. It is always MQM with some coalition who runs Karachi. Right now PPP has only 3 NA seats from Karachi.

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Ahmd72|5 years ago

I would say its both, not only Karachi was flooded but the whole Sindh and PPP has been in Sindh for the last 12-13 years. The Sindh provincial ministers during the early monsoon spell were even on the roads saying everything is okay and didn't even cleared out the nullahs for which NDMA had to be brought in. As long as there is no accountability in Pakistan I can easily say this country will never prosper. PPP keeps on playing politics and the victim card while making their ministers become billionaires, look at Zardari he spent the major part of his life and when released from prison becomes a billionaire instantly. Then there is his son Bilawal, its a line of vultures in Pakistan, just one after the another

hyder_m29|5 years ago

MQM and the Mayor is still waiting to receive a mandate from the provincial government. All power lies with the PPP in Karachi.

tegeek|5 years ago

MQM and coalition was brought in power in 1983. Since then PPP has no mandate, they have no power to run the city. There are no funds available to any PPP representative in Karachi. All development or non-development projects run by the City administration. It is always the winning parties who decide about city development. How come a party which doesn't have any significant representation in city administration for 40 years is responsible for its development??? Karachi's city administration has been receiving one of the largest funds than any other city in Pakistan.

baybal2|5 years ago

While I find the discussion of who is worse of PPP or MQM beyond meaningless, I want to state that this mean little when city's administration was effectively defunct for decades.

Up until around 2015, the de-facto Mayor slash Don of Karachi was Altaf Bhai, and Liyari gangs were his revenue department.

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Only in the land of pure:

> Pakistan: Karachi mayor to run office from prison

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/pakistan-karachi-mayo...