Karachi's Deteriorating Infrastructure: Broken Roads, Open Sewers... Who is Responsible?

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00:00This topic is very close to my heart and it upsets me a lot.

00:04And I regret that we talk about this topic again and again.

00:08I mean, should this be a topic under discussion?

00:11Should it be even a topic?

00:13But it is, for all the valid reasons.

00:16Because this is a problem that does not take the name of being solved.

00:19I mean, if you think that an outsider is watching this program

00:22and he thinks that this is a problem in a prime time show or in any show.

00:27This discussion is going on, or the headlines in the news are that

00:30there is a city, its name is Karachi.

00:32It is the largest city or the only city in the world.

00:36And here, sometimes a citizen gets stuck in a leaf.

00:44If he gets stuck in a leaf, he gets stuck in a sheet.

00:46If he gets stuck in a sheet, he gets stuck in a sack.

00:49If the sack culture ends, he gets stuck in mobile snatching.

00:51I mean, it is such a big city.

00:52Today, if you do a random survey,

00:55pick 10 people of your choice,

00:57anyone who has been living in this city for 10-15 years or less.

01:01And ask 10 people if someone's mobile phone has been snatched.

01:04I bet that at least 1 out of 10 will be snatched.

01:07At least 1 will be snatched.

01:08Maybe more.

01:09So, he gets stuck in a mobile.

01:11If he gets stuck in a mobile, it rains.

01:13So, when it rains, water comes.

01:14More water comes. More water comes.

01:16When water comes, it gets stuck in the pillars.

01:18So, the children die from the current.

01:19When the heat wave comes, the community dies.

01:21When a signboard falls on the air, another 100 people die.

01:24And when people walk away from that signboard,

01:27people die from the gutter opening.

01:32And such incidents don't happen once.

01:34Such incidents don't happen twice.

01:35Such incidents don't happen thrice.

01:37Such incidents don't happen four times.

01:38Now, there is no official number on this,

01:40but you keep seeing the headlines every other day.

01:41So, people must be lying.

01:43Headlines, news, footage,

01:46pictures of parents.

01:49So, according to the collected figures,

01:52in 2023, more than 60 people,

01:55that is, approximately 5 in every month,

01:57that is, 1 in every week.

01:58In 2023, more than 60 people fell into open main halls

02:02and gutters and died.

02:04There were 21 children in it.

02:05Due to the failure of the gutter,

02:0721 children died.

02:0960 people died.

02:10In 2024, 51 people died.

02:13There were 19 children in it.

02:152025 has started.

02:16People are talking about NASA,

02:18about the moon,

02:19about what will happen this year,

02:20where will the world go this year,

02:21the moon, Mars, the sun.

02:23What is the topic here?

02:25Will the gutters start closing this year

02:27or will the children keep dying this year

02:28due to the failure of the gutters?

02:30And the answer is that they will die this year too.

02:32So, I tell the people of Karachi to save their children.

02:34Otherwise, they will die.

02:37Because one incident has happened this year.

02:39This year has just started.

02:40The first week has not ended yet.

02:41Today is January 7th.

02:42One incident has happened.

02:44One more child has died

02:45due to the failure of the gutters.

02:50And I have a personal relationship of respect.

02:54The mayor of this city is in the most important position.

02:58Did he find it appropriate to give an opinion on this?

03:01He is with us.

03:02I am thankful to him.

03:03And he said,

03:04I am not stealing.

03:06I am not stealing.

03:07Or my deputy mayor Salman is not stealing.

03:10It is not my job to stand in the lane

03:11and see who is stealing the gutters.

03:14So, the mayor gave this statement.

03:16See, Mr. Murtaza, when did you come?

03:19I asked a gutter question.

03:21Did Salman steal the gutter cover?

03:23Or did Murtaza steal it?

03:25Or did you steal it?

03:26It is necessary to understand

03:27who is stealing the gutter cover.

03:29This powdery drug mafia.

03:33If you ask the police to do KMC,

03:35tell me, I will start Salman's work.

03:37You don't ask questions to those you want to ask.

03:40We look innocent.

03:42Even after doing KMC,

03:44we hear such things.

03:46Probably, there are 300,000 manholes in Karachi.

03:49If you say,

03:50I will go and stand on 300,000 manholes myself.

03:54What is this statement of 2023?

03:56Now 2025 has come.

03:58The circumstances have not changed.

04:00The situation has not changed.

04:01The cover has not changed.

04:02The children have not changed to die.

04:04The statement has not changed either.

04:06See the statement of tomorrow, Mr. Murtaza.

04:09The incident of yesterday is very regrettable.

04:11More regrettable than that is

04:13what is being done politically.

04:15If anyone thinks that the business of stealing the cover

04:18is the property of Salman or Murtaza,

04:20then you tell me.

04:21I don't steal.

04:22It is not my job to go and protect it

04:24in every poor neighborhood.

04:29I assure you that

04:31I am not doing this deliberately.

04:33These gutter covers are stolen.

04:36They are stolen because there is cash in them.

04:38And that cash is sold to the garbage men in the market.

04:42I have said this many times to the police.

04:45Those who buy this cover in the second-hand garbage market,

04:48everyone knows where that market is.

04:50We have to crack it down.

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