Islamabad: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Syed Mustafa Kamal expressed his anger in the co-liberal Parliament of Pakistan, saying that India has reached the moon, while in our Karachi children fall into open drains.
The MQM-P leader further told the Pakistan Parliament that seven million children in Sindh are not able to go to school and 2.6 million children across Pakistan are out of school.
He further said, 'Karachi is the revenue engine of Pakistan, its two ports have been operational since the creation of Pakistan. Both of them are in Karachi. We (Karachi) are the gateway to Afghanistan and Central Asia for the whole of Pakistan. However, for 15 years Karachi has not received even a drop of clean drinking water. It is also transported by tankers, but the tankers smuggle it and sell it to the people of Karachi at high prices.
It is said on paper that there are 48,000 schools in our country. But 11,000 of those schools are 'ghost schools' (fake schools), 70 lakh children are not going to school in Sindh. 2 crore 62 lakh children are not going to school in the entire country. If we pay attention to this, the country will not sleep well, the MQM leader also said.
He further said that India had sent Chandrayaan-3 to the Moon in August-2023. It is becoming the world's first spacecraft to reach the south pole of the Moon. Meanwhile, Pakistan is struggling with economic recession, high inflation and rising debt. Now he is asking for a new loan from IMF under the Extended Fund Facility.
The team of this global lender has come to Pakistan and is asking us to keep strict control on the expenses. Yet this MP said something that opened everyone's eyes.