- MQM-P urges action against careless heavy vehicles.
- Party to contact SC on road safety crisis.
- Siddiqui criticized the Sindh government for negligence.
Karachi: Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has urged the federal government to provide financial compensation to the families of those who lost their lives in recent road accidents related to heavy vehicles in Karachi, who emphasize the need for immediate action to address poor traffic safety conditions in the city.
Speaking at a press conference at his party’s Bahadurbad headquarters on Sunday, Reports Told, MQM-P President Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said that the Sindh government no longer takes responsibility for the welfare of the residents of the urban areas of the province.
He said that the Supreme Court should take cognizance if the federal and provincial governments failed to compensate the bereaved families of the victims of road accidents in Karachi.
He announced that the MQM-P Supreme Court would continuously take the Supreme Court against road traffic accidents in which heavy vehicles and other excesses are being committed against the residents of urban Sindh.
However, he informed the media individuals that the previous petitions filed by MQM-P to get justice for the residents of urban Sindh were pending in better courts.
He said that the situation in Karachi had become tragic due to deadly road traffic accidents before Eid.
Dr. Siddiqui, who is also the Minister of Federal Education, said that the first innocent life was lost in the city at the hands of armed road robbers.
He said that the operators of heavy vehicles were acting like a criminal mafia in the city. The Sindh government failed to come to the rescue of the concerned residents of Karachi, who were in serious crisis, they maintained.
The MQM-P chief said that the security and law and order situation in Karachi would deteriorate to a dangerous extent if the authorities failed to take appropriate corrective measures.
He said that the residents of Karachi failed to get water facilities through lines despite paying excessive taxes to the government. He also cheated the provincial government for failure to give pension to retired employees of municipal agencies in Karachi.
Dr. Siddiqui appealed to the philanthropist to face serious injustice in support of the residents of Karachi. He appealed to the concerned citizens to pay any fee to the alleged vendors providing parking facilities in the city after the announcement by the provincial government and the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation that they had abolished the collection of parking charges from motorists in public places.
Dr. Siddiqui announced that MQM-P would inspect Eid ul Fitr with simplicity due to deadly road traffic accidents in Karachi recently.
