Both sides of Shahrah-e-Faisal were blocked after Jamat-e-Islami staged a sit-in infront of the head office of the Water Board on Friday.

Protestors demanded better water management for the city and raised slogans against Mayor Murtaza Wahab.

Addressing the sit-in, JI’s Hafiz Naeem said that there is an extreme crisis of water in the city and its 35 million inhabitants were living a life of difficulty.

He added that electricity and gas were not regularly supplied to the city’s inhabitants and the PPP government had spent 15 years repainting 150 buses and running them in the city.

He also alleged that there was an attempt to ‘undercount’ the city’s population and said the JI would not compromise on the accurate measure of the city’s population under any circumstances.

Naeem said that the water board was the point of corruption in Karachi’s water system. He said that PPP was ‘neck-deep’ in corruption and shares from the water board’s corruption even reach Bilawal house.

He said that Karachi’s industry should be provided water through a ‘legal’ route and that he did not accept a system where water was not supplied to peoples house.