The ruling People’s Party in Sindh had elected its mayor in Karachi for the first time through great effort and successful planning, while 13 town chairmen in Karachi are also related to the People’s Party, while the People’s Party does not have a majority in the Union Councils of the Greater Karachi, and the PP had elected its mayor with the support of the PTI’s UC chairmen. were in position. These two parties lost the opportunity to bring their own mayor in Karachi by not uniting with each other.
If they had removed their political grudges and united, today the mayor of Karachi would have been a joint candidate of PTI and Jamaat-e-Islami instead of being of the People’s Party. Nematullah, the mayor of Karachi who was formed during the Musharraf era, belonged to Jamaat-e-Islami. He did exemplary work for the development of Karachi. The sincerity with which he served Karachi is still remembered and examples are given. Even today, if the mayor of Karachi was from Jamaat-e-Islami, it is possible that the situation in Karachi would not be what it is today.
It is possible that Karachi’s system would have been much better and people would not have had the complaints about sanitation and other issues. MQM had boycotted the local elections as part of its politics, and had won the highest number of National and Provincial Assembly seats in the February 2024 elections.
In Karachi, 13 Town Municipal Corporations are held by Peoples Party, 9 by Jamaat-e-Islami and 4 by PTI and MQM, JUI do not have any UC seats and municipal politics are held by PP, Jamaat-e-Islami and PTI, but PTI is silent as to why, while Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi Ameer and PP Mayor are busy accusing each other and do not let any chance of criticism go.
Opposition leaders from the MQM in its Sindh Assembly criticize the performance of mayors and town chairmen of the People’s Party and Jamaat-e-Islami, to which provincial ministers Sharjeel Memon and Nasir Hussain Shah respond. Unlike the 9 chairmen of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Amirs of Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi are more active in municipal politics, whose accusations against the mayor of Karachi are common.
The MQM demanded from the Sindh government that the Sindh government of the People’s Party should give powers to its own mayor Karachi, which has not yet given the powers to the mayor Karachi that they should get because now they have their own mayor, while since the local elections in 1979, the mayor of Karachi used to be elected by Jamaat-e-Islami and MQM and since 2008, the Sindh government has taken away the powers of the mayor of Karachi, while now the Sindh government has given its mayor more powers and KMC. should be given maximum funds.
The Mayor of Baldia Uzma Karachi has been the legal adviser to the Government of Sindh, the spokesperson of the Government of Sindh and for some time the administrator of the MC and he uses his powers more than the former mayors but does not ask his government for the powers that a mayor should get under 14-A.
The 9 chairman of Jamaat-e-Islami and the regional officials of Jamaat-e-Islami are working together day and night and the responsibility of criticizing and accusing the Mayor Karachi and Sindh government is being handled by the Ameer of Jamaat Karachi. People’s Party Karachi President Saeed Ghani is busy running his ministry and his brother is also the Town Chairman and Saeed Ghani is from Karachi. PP Karachi officials and Mayor Karachi do not have the same relationship that exists between Jamaat-e-Islami chairmen and officials.
It is unfortunate for Karachi that the parties claiming to represent Karachi are only doing politics instead of managing Karachi and solving the problems of Karachi together. It is the good fortune of PPP that for the first time its mayor and town chairman were elected in large numbers and the government in Sindh has also been of PPP for 17 years.
Mayors of Jamaat-e-Islami and MQM have performed three times. The city managers of both were powerful and had record development during their tenure, but the mayor of PP has not been able to show the same performance as him, and if these three parties and local government officials want to prioritize the interest of Karachi and the citizens instead of their own politics and work together and the three parties take over Karachi in the interest of the citizens only for the remaining period, it is not impossible to change in Karachi. They will say bad things to the three in disappointment.
