[DAWN] The Supreme Court-appointed judicial commission on water quality and drainage in Sindh on Friday ordered municipal authorities in Bloody Karachi...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
to dismiss all Moslem sanitation workers from service after being informed that the employees refuse to do jobs such as cleaning sewers.
They live in a shithole because it's beneath the dignity of Moslems to shovel shit.
Retired Justice Amir Hani Moslem, who heads the one-member commission, observed at the outset of the hearing that the city's central district was littered with garbage. He asked District Municipal Corporation (DMC) Central Chairman Rehan Hashmi how many of the district's 1,200 sweepers were Moslems.
When Hashmi disclosed that nearly 200 of the sanitation workers were Moslems, the judge asked whether those employees also clean gutters.
The DMC chairman replied that they did not, upon which the judge ordered him to dismiss those sanitation workers from service.
Justice Moslem remarked that municipal matters of the city will suffer if appointments are made on a political basis.
Hashmi claimed that his office lacks the resources and machinery to rid the city of garbage completely.
Local Government Secretary Ramzan Awan informed the commission that as many as 50 per cent of DMC employees don't show up to work. "Political appointments are common in Karachi," he said.
Awan also revealed that around 1,380 DMC workers out of a total of 13,000 had turned out to be ghost employees.
Before adjourning the hearing until April 5, the commission ordered the Sindh Solid Waste Management Board and the Cantonment Boards to ensure through their contractors and employees that "all the solid municipal waste is removed from the city starting from today".