JI slams govt over unfinished development project in Karachi

KARACHI — Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi emir Munim Zafar has said the incomplete Red Line Project on University Road is causing hardships for the public.

“Millions of dollars have been spent on the feasibility of the project which began in 2016 but it is still not complete,” Munim Zafar said in a statement issued here on Sunday.

The project was scheduled to be finished in 2023. The new deadline for the project completion is 2026, however it is also in doubt.

Mismanagement has eaten away at the roads and institutions of Karachi. There has been a serious impact on educational and commercial activity on University Road.

So far four workers have been killed in Red Line project’, the JI leader claimed and demanded urgent restoration of the University Road to its previous shape.

The K-4 project augmentation, along with the BRT, has not been finished. Feudalism is enslaving people. No more will the manner of government continue in Karachi.

He said the Jamaat-e-Islami would continue to raise its voice for the rights of the people.

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“Karachi’s citizens have been deprived of the right to live,” he added, adding that accidents had become a regular ritual in the city.

The public may see for themselves what is going on in the city. “Our agenda is construction, development and resistance,” he said.