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Mustafa Kamal declared 2nd best among top mayors in the globe |
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KARACHI: An award winning American magazine Foreign Policy, has chosen Nazim Karachi, Syed Mustafa Kamal as second among the three best mayors in the world for the year 2008.
The magazine has included the names of Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Wang Hongju, Mayor of Chongqing as the other mayors of the moment, said a CDGK statement issued here Sunday.
The magazine said no city globalises on its own, but with shrewd investments and smart urban planning, a mayor can help turn a regional player into a global powerhouse. Here's how three of the world's top mayors are climbing the ladder, it said.
About Syed Mustafa Kamal the magazine wrote that the mayor of Karachi is an unlikely poster child for innovative urban planning.
It said the 36-year-old Syed Mustafa Kamal governs a city that's more often in the news for religious violence than cosmopolitan ways. But the hard-charging Kamal is looking to change all that. He's courting foreign investment, encouraging international ties, and boosting the city's tourism.
According to the US magazine Kamal is not shy about his goals: He has said he wants to turn Karachi into the next Dubai. His Green Karachi project aims to plant thousands of trees in the city. Kamal is not letting anything stand in the way of his grand plans. He has threatened to arrest anyone who tries to cut down the new saplings, it added.
Meanwhile City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal congratulated his party (Muttahida Qaumi Movement) leader, Altaf Hussain.
In a statement from London on Sunday, Mustafa Kamal said all credit for this should go to Altaf Hussain who has selected the representatives from lower and middle class that represents 98 percent of the total population of the country.
It is also the recognition of the philosophy of MQM and the 30-year- long struggle of its leader Altaf Hussain.
He said in the past there was no concept of ownership in Karachi, however we owned this city and carried out development works on a large scale, however, t a lot of work is still to be done and the city is still far from the concept of an ideal city.
He said that provided the Haq Parast continued with the city government, all problems still to be resolved, will also be solved in future, according to the statement.
Mustafa Kamal said despite all the obstacles and different kinds of challenges and difficulties faced by his team, he has never let down the people and will continue to do so in future also.
Claiming absence of one command and controlling authority for the city, Nazim Karachi said at present 13 organisations are controlling the city's municipal affairs which have made the situation very difficult for development of the city.
We have contacted everywhere from top to bottom, who has anything to do with the policy and decision making and now they should pay attention to this.
He said Karachi is no ordinary city but it is the backbone of national economy. We have developed Karachi so that the country could also develop and the people of Pakistan get the fruit of prosperity, he added.
Nazim Karachi said his whole team from a peon and driver to top city government officials, City Naib Nazim, town nazims, union nazims and all elected representatives of Karachi played their important role in the recognition of his performance at international level. |
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