QUETTA: Opposition leaders have alleged that financial corruption is being committed by authorities of the Quetta Metropolitan Corporation in the name of paid parking and issuance of birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates.

Talking to reporters at the Quetta Press Club here on Sunday, opposition leader in the QMC Raheem Kakar, deputy opposition leader Khuda Bakhsh Lehri and councillors Haji Sarwar Bazai and Malik Anayat Kasi said that wide roads in the city had turned into narrow streets because the space was covered by parking.

Also read :‘Only 550 of 1,957 QMC workers perform duty’

They alleged that the decisions to demolish mutton market of Mizan Chowk, construction of two flowers’ shops within the limits of the corporation and allotment of its property had been taken without the approval and permission of the QMC’s council.

They said the illegal construction of multi-storey buildings had been allowed after receiving bribe.

Published in Dawn, November 23rd, 2015

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