KARACHI: Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar on Tuesday suspended Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal as the city’s ‘Project Director Garbage’, mere hours after the former mayor was assigned the post to help clean up the metropolis.
Speaking to media, Waseem Akhtar said he had “suspended Mustafa Kamal from his post as Karachi’s Project Director Garbage until further orders”, less than 24 hours after Kamal was designated as Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) ‘Project Director Garbage’ to rid the city of garbage in 90 days.
“Instead of coming to the office and [working], Mustafa Kamal is busy with political point scoring,” a visibly enraged Akhtar said.
“My sincerity was taken advantage of and used for politics. This means you [Mustafa Kamal] were not sincere in solving the problems of Karachi,” he added.
In a notification issued on Monday from the mayor’s office, Kamal had been appointed as ‘Project Director Garbage’ on a voluntary basis as “he had shown his willingness to clean the city of Karachi within 90 days of time.” (INP)
