Leaders pay respects at Jinnah’s mausoleum

Sindh Governor Imran Ismail, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, along with the members of the Sindh cabinet yesterday visited the mausoleum of Pakistan’s founder Quaide-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi to pay homage on the occasion of his 73rd death anniversary.

Shah said Pakistan would make rapid progress if countrymen fully acted upon the three golden principles of Quaid-e-Azam — unity, faith, and discipline.

He said the unity had become all the more important given the external threats being faced by Pakistan in the present day.

He said all Pakistanis should always keep the national interest supreme.

Karachi package

The said both the federal and provincial governments were doing their part to implement the joint Rs1,100 billion Karachi development package announced last.

He said owing to this, Karachi had witnessed improved civic conditions during the current monsoon compared to the last year. The CM added that efforts had begun to make Karachi Metropolitan Corporate the self-sustained municipality of the provincial capital.