Karachi situation is complicated , when MQM was in power they did nothing for people , and now PPPP is in Govt for 8 years they did nothing except bring Wadera's and make them settled in Posh areas in Karachi where they drive with armed guards and be Gunday's and no one can touch them . In Karachi unless Federal Govt interfere , give justice to people and take on these Mafia's nothing will change, our votes make difference but in few districts/cities but majority of Sindh will remain under PPPP control because Sindhi people living in Interior they force them to vote for them , pay them etc .
It's not federal govt's job, period.
Here is the problem that I come to read and listen to regularly nowadays, not from the Sindh government but from local journalists and administrators in Karachi. Though PPP is corrupt and more than that incompetent - and I abhor them for that - they have nonetheless attempted to do things in Karachi, small though they may be. However, there are "magical groups" in Karachi who cause disruptions with their magic. Sacks filled with large stones and rocks magically find their way in the sewerage quite regularly. Recently they found broken-down but large pieces of a motorbike in sewerage somewhere in Karachi. Though the quality of the roads is inferior they are magically dug up after renovation. Trash magically reappears in places which have been cleaned up. Red splatters appear overnight on freshly painted walls (I think there is haunting involved alongside magic). There is a lot going on. I think if we ask Mustafa Kamal nicely - whether we like him or not - he will definitely give us the names of few of the Bangali Babas involved in this magic and hauntings. He has dealt with them in another lifetime.
The above magic and hauntings happen in less posh areas of Karachi but posh areas like Clifton and DHA are sort of autonomous from Sindh government. Let's not start the debate on who is in-charge there. Yet! look at the
buray halaat of the roads, cleanliness and the infrastructure of electricity supply here, and to think our current President was elected from these constituencies.
The objective of these Bangali Babas, Magicians, Blood splatting supernatural beings is simple; ensure that any government that is not of their making continues to fail, or at least, appear a failure in the city. Otherwise, there are examples of local administrators/authorities who successfully carried out improvements in law and order and infrastructure in Sindh. But once they were assigned similar tasks in Karachi they failed.
But that's one side of the story. Us Karachites are essentially thankless and indisciplined folk. This is true across the board. Whether we are waderas or choteras, Sindhis or Urdu speaking or Pashtoons, Punjabis, Balochis, Sirakis, etc, for that matter. The government doesn't clean up but did we ever manage our trash properly? They build a road once in a lifetime and the same road is put to a stress test by our bikers and truckers overnight. People keep taunting us for pan-ki-peek, for which we are easily offended but never try to correct ourselves.
Allah (SWT) says that He will give us the leadership of the same character as ours. For Karachi to improve, in fact for entire Pakistan to improve, we need to improve our characters.
