Naeem accuses PPP, MQM-P of creating chaos to get political mileage

Karachi Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Saturday accused the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of creating chaos in Karachi to gain political mileage before the general elections.

Addressing a press conference at the Karachi JI headquarters, Idara Noor-e-Haq, he condemned a violent incident in New Karachi and said both the PPP and MQM-P activists exchanged fire, as a result of which a child was put on life support after he received bullet injuries.

He alleged that the PPP and MQM-P always staged confrontation ahead of the elections and joined hands afterwards for corruption. 

He said the JI would follow its Karachi Declaration for the progress and development of the city and other parts of the province. He added that the JI would be a crucial part of the next government in the Centre and Sindh.

The Karachi JI chief promised that after assuming power, the JI would ensure health cards for the people of Karachi.

If health cards powered by tax money paid by the people of Karachi could be offered to people in other provinces, why such cards should not be issued to Karachiites, he asked.

Commenting on the controversy surrounding the Intermediate examinations, he said the students of Karachi had been pushed towards a bleak future as almost 80 per cent of the Intermediate students were failed.

Rehman said the Sindh caretaker chief minister had contacted the JI over the issue and the party demanded that the examination results be suspended and a committee constituted to recheck the copies.

He said that if the JI’s demand was not met, it could stage sit-ins even on the day if the elections.

Later in the day, the JI leader addressed youths appearing in the entry test for the JI’s Bano Qabil programme at the Football Stadium in Baldia Town in District Keamari.

He said the JI was well connected with the youth of the megalopolis. He asked the youth to realise their potential and come forward to play their due role for their own and the city’s betterment.

He told the youth that Karachi had 22 seats of the National Assembly and 47 of the Sindh Assembly and if the reserved and senate seats were calculated based on the assembly seats, the total number of Karachi’s parliamentarians reached to 96.

He lamented that despite having such a large electoral power, Karachi and its residents had been facing multiple crises for long.

The JI’s candidate for NA-242 Fazal Ahad Hanif, candidate for NA-243 Shiraz Khan Jadoon and others also addressed the programme.