Karachi, Pakistan – Web Desk: Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab said the Sindh Governor House operates on funds provided by the Sindh government and stressed that ethnic politics should have no place in the institution.
Speaking to the media in Karachi, Wahab said ethnic politics has historically harmed both the city and the province. He criticised what he described as double standards in political rhetoric, noting that leaders call Sindh “their province” in cities such as Larkana, Hyderabad, and Malir, but raise separatist slogans when speaking in Karachi’s Lalokhait area.
Wahab urged political actors to focus on unity, saying divisive narratives were damaging and counterproductive.
Meanwhile, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly, Ali Khurshidi, criticised the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), claiming that a “people’s governor” had achieved in a limited budget what the party failed to accomplish with a multi-trillion-rupee budget. He accused the PPP of intolerance toward an MQM governor and suggested the party was acting like a nationalist group.
Khurshidi also dismissed claims of nationalist slogans in Sindh, arguing that such slogans were heard in Punjab’s Governor House, not in Sindh.
The remarks reflect growing political tensions in Karachi, where debates over governance, identity politics, and public service delivery remain highly sensitive.
