US official calls on Faryal Talpur at Zardari House

F.P. Report

KARACHI: The United States Consulate’s Political Officer, Ronald Rhinehart called on Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Women Wing’s President and Chairperson of Sindh Assembly’s Standing Committee on Home Affairs, here on Saturday at Zardari House in Karachi.

She thanked the Government of United States and USAID for the continued support to the Sindh Government mainly in the field of education, health and governance and hoped that such support would be extended to other sectors with a priority to the climate related interventions – looking at the climate change threats in the aftermath of last year’s devastating rains and floods, where the province of Sindh was the worst-hit.

She also emphasised on the exponential increase in numbers of children, which are malnourished in the aftermath of floods in Sindh and sought more help from international community for supporting the efforts of the Sindh Government.

While discussing the delivery and effectiveness of the service delivery through Local Governments, she said that due to the effective performance of Sindh Government; the PPP has achieved the landslide victory in recently held Local Government Elections in the province, and has emerged as the single largest party for the first time in Karachi.

“The next Mayor of Karachi would be a PPP’s Jiyala, as already announced by Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari,” she reiterated.

Talking about ongoing Digital Census, she said that for effective planning and providing better services to the people both now and in the future, the fairness and uniformity on counting the people is very critical and such grievances must be addressed through validation, by using the latest technology.

On electoral and governance related reforms introduced by the PPP Pakistan, she said that under the historic 18th amendment, the roles and timelines for agreeing with consensus over the Caretaker Governments both at the Federal and Provincial levels are clearly defined, and there’s no room left for creating any panic or the anarchy.

The PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Sindh Minister for Labour Saeed Ghani, Sindh Advisor for Law Murtaza Wahab, Member Sindh Assembly, Sohail Anwar Siyal and Sindh Health Parliamentary Secretary Qasim Soomro also attended the meeting.