Historic accord on Karachi’s development reached by 3 parties
News of accord aired by senior TV news anchor on twitter
After days of bickering, three major political parties in Pakistan — the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) — have reached a “historic” accord to reconcile their differences and work jointly for much-needed progress and development of the country’s financial hub.
The most surprising aspect of the unprecedented development is that no official announcement was immediately made to make the public aware of this development. Instead a renowned senior TV news anchor took to twitter to air this “Breaking news”.
Senior TV news anchor Kamran Khan just before midnight on Saturday uploaded a video clip of himself on his twitter account to make people aware about this development.
Through the video clip, he informed his millions of social media followers that the accord of political reconciliation between the PPP, PTI, and MQM had brought to an end the political uncertainty and bickering that had been plaguing Karachi.
Khan, who hosts a popular news show on one of the many private TV news channels in Pakistan, said the accord had been reached in the presence of a senior official of the Pakistani Army.
Khan in his video clip said the accord would enable the three political parties to work together for the progress and development of Karachi.
The negotiations for the accord were attended by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Sindh Information and Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani, Federal Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar, Federal
Maritime Affairs’ Minister Ali Zaidi, and Karachi’s Mayor Waseem Akhtar.
The Sindh CM and two Sindh ministers represented PPP in the talks, the two federal ministers belong to PTI, while Karachi’s mayor represented MQM in the negotiations.
Khan, who hosts a popular news show, said the accord had been reached in the presence of a senior official of the Army.
Battle for control
The accord was reached in the backdrop of indications repeatedly given by the authorities of PTI’s federal government that it wanted to directly assume the administrative control of Karachi in order to improve its civic and municipal infrastructure.
The PPP, which has been in power in Sindh province for last 12 years, strongly reacted against such intentions of the federal government saying that any such act to impose federal rule in Karachi would be utterly against the spirit of the country’s Constitution. The PPP said that it would resist any such move by the PTI government.