Thousands registered as 'City Owners'

This is now the duty of Karachiittes to protect all these facilities by spending at least two hours as volunteers to ensure that these assets are not damaged. We can plant trees but cannot ensure their growth.

We can build a modern bus stop waiting area but cannot place a guard to ensure that nobody spit pan there. People should protect them and use them as civilised citizens.

He said that these cards are issued to every citizen irrespective of his affiliation, whether he is rich or poor, minister of nazim, industrialist or worker, shopkeeper or thella wala (vendor), provided he is willing to look after the assets of the metropolis as its owner.

“No city or country can be run without citizen’s ownership”, he noted.

He said these cards will create a sense of belonging and ownership among the citizen and more people will be joining this team of volunteers.