Pakistani MP Syed Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday drew parallels between India’s and Pakistan’s achievements during his speech at the National Assembly. He compared between India’s achievements and the precarious situation in Karachi, by mentioning India’s moon landing mission. In his address, he referenced India’s successful moon landing mission with Karachi’s tragic reality, where children are dying by falling into gutters. “Today, the world is going to the moon, children are dying by falling into gutters in Karachi. On our TV screens, we see the news that India landed on the moon, and after just two seconds, there is news that a child died in an open gutter Karachi,” Kamal said in his address to the Parliament.
Mustafa Kamal’s remarks were in reference to India’s successful Chandrayaan-3 mission in August last year. With Chandrayaan-3, India scripted history by becoming the first country to soft-land on the Moon’s south pole.
The MQM-P member also spoke about the lack of fresh water in the city, home to nearly 20.3 million (2.3 crore) people. “Karachi is the revenue engine of Pakistan. The two seaports operational in Pakistan since its inception, are both here. It is the gateway to the entire country. For 15 years, Karachi did not get much fresh water. Whatever water came, that too was hoarded by the tanker mafia,” Kamal stated.
Citing a report, he further mentioned that as many as 70 lakh children in the Sindh province, of which Karachi is the Capital, were not going to school, and nationally, that number stood at 2.6 crore.
“We have total 48,000 schools, but a new report says that out of these, 11,000 are ‘ghost schools.’ As many as 70 lakh children in Sindh and 2.62 crore in the country. are not going to school. That should not let our leaders get proper sleep,” he said.
“Our neighbouring India – 30 years ago, it taught its citizens those things which the world needed. Today, Indians are CEOs of 25 top Global Companies…Today, there are loads of global investments in India,” Kamal said.
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He also took potshots at the government over cash-trapped Pakistan’s foreign reserves, saying, “We have total reserves, which we can’t even spend because we have taken loans, at $8-9 billion…sometimes it is $6 billion. India’s reserve is $607 billion…”
Syed Mustafa Kamal’s remarks come days after senior Pakistani politician Maulana Fazlur Rehman, pointed to economic disparities between India and Pakistan, saying that “India is dreaming of becoming a superpower, and we are begging to avoid bankruptcy.”
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