Will snatch NFC award from Centre with public's support: Bilawal

KARACHI (92 News) – Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto said on Sunday that the PPP administration in Sindh will snatch the NFC award from the Centre with public's support. Addressing party workers in Karachi's different area, Bilawal Bhutto said that the authorities have ended rule of terrorist in Karachi and now government’s focus is on development of the metropolis. "Sindh government will not knock down illegal dwellings along Karachi’s drains until their occupants are provided with alternative places to reside," the PPP chairman said. He further said the government will clean storm-water drains but won’t render people living in illegal structures around nullahs homeless and stressed the need for taking care of the affectees of the anti-encroachment drive. Referring to the destructive rain, Bilawal Bhutto said that his party stands by the people in these testing times and will facilitate citizens in every way possible. He acknowledged that the Green Line bus project had adversely affected the city's drainage system. "I need you all to extend the kind of support you did to Benazir," he said, speaking of his late mother. "We will secure funds for Sindh from the federal government," he vowed. Earlier on Saturday, Prime Minister Khan had announced a ‘historic’ Rs1100 billion financial package for the execution of a transformation plan meant to address the city’s chronic issues and meet its developmental requirements.