‘India landed on moon while our children dying after falling into open gutters’: Syed Mustafa Kamal
Syed Mustafa Kamal, a member of Pakistan’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) party, stated that while Karachi was still broadcasting stories about children dying after falling into open gutters, India was making incredible progress, including landing on the moon.
سید مصطفیٰ کمال نے ببانگ دہل کراچی کا مقدمہ پارلیمنٹ میں کھلے الفاظ میں پیش کیا۔ سنئے#Pakistan #Sindh #Karachi #MQMP #PTI #PPP #President #AsifAliZardari #Bilawal #MustafaKamal #Nation #NationalAssembly #Parliament pic.twitter.com/7B8wKPIYP7
— Syed Mustafa Kamal (@KamalMQM) May 15, 2024
Syed Kamal, while addressing the National Assembly on Wednesday said, “The situation in Karachi is such that, while the rest of the world is going to the moon, many children here are falling into open drains and dying. On the same screen, there is news that India has landed on the moon, followed by news that a child perished after falling into an open gutter in Karachi. This is the same news every third day.”
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission rewrote history books with the successful soft landing on Moon’s surface on 23 August 2023.
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India is currently the first nation to approach the Moon’s unexplored South Pole and is one of the top four nations to land softly on the lunar surface.
In his address, Kamal also stated that Karachi city is the “revenue engine” of Pakistan.
“The country has two seaports, both of which are in Karachi. The city is a gateway to all of Pakistan, Central Asia, and Afghanistan. We collect around 68% of the revenue from the city and distribute it to the nation,” he said.
“However, for 15 years, Karachi received no fresh water. And the water that came, was stolen and stored by the water tanker mafia, and then sold to the residents of Karachi,” he added.
Syed Mustafa Kamal highlights poor condition of children in Pakistan
He also highlighted that 26.2 million children in Pakistan do not go to school.
Sindh alone has 48,000 schools, but 11,000 of them are ‘ghost schools,’ according to the politician, who also claims that 70 lakh students in the province do not attend school.
