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.