Where has Karachi?s water gone, commission head asks KWSB MD

KARACHI: The top of the water fee, Justice (retd) Amir Hani Muslim, reprimanded on Monday the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board Managing Director Khalid Sheikh over town’s water crises.

Justice (retd) Muslim, who heads a Ideally suited Courtroom-appointed judicial fee investigating the failure of the government involved to supply blank consuming water and fortify sanitation stipulations in Sindh, expressed his anger at KWSB for failing to make sure the availability of water to other folks within the town.

“What is going on in Karachi? The place has the entire water long past? Name MD water board, the place is he? If he’s busy then the place are different the officials?” the water fee head requested all through a listening to at Sindh Prime Courtroom.

The water fee then summoned KWSB MD Khalid Sheikh, who seemed sooner than the court docket later.

The fee then wondered MD bearing on water crises within the town. “Do you learn the newspapers? Persons are hurling abuses at you. Have you learnt of this? Water is not to be had in neigbouring spaces of hydrants. Other people set up water strains, however they nonetheless do not get water,” remarked Justice (retd) Muslim.

Sheikh, in his reaction, stated that people who find themselves getting water will have to be grateful. To which, the fee head replied: “Why are you talking like this? It’s your duty to supply water to other folks. You’ve got destroyed the method of water distribution.”

Sheikh reasoned that persons are going through issues associated with restricted get admission to to water. “We perceive the issues of the folks.”

On March 20, the SC-appointed fee had ordered that each one newly-constructed housing schemes be demolished if they’re discovered to have damaged the rules governing such construction initiatives.

The fee additionally ordered Sindh Development Keep an eye on Authority to research the problem of encroachments along rivers and nullahs within the town. “Handiest those that have got a hire for his or her dwellings shall be given reimbursement,” the retired justice had ordered.