Tabish Hashmi | PPP Govt | Gull Plaza | Mayor Karachi | Imran Khan | Asim Munir

Comedian and actor Tabish Hashmi wants Karachi’s management to be privatised and handed over to the citizens of this city, because even if they try, the standard can’t be worse than it already is — and RJ Anoushey Ashraf agrees. While analysing the Gul Plaza fire on a Geo talkshow, Report Card, an exasperated Hashmi said the city should be run as a unified power by communities residing in Karachi instead of the government. “The way the government realised that they can’t run PIA and privatised it, please privatise Karachi the same way. We Karachiites, Pathan, Baloch, Sindhi, Muhajirs, all Punjabis that are here, we will buy Karachi together. If this is the criterion and standard of running Karachi, then we will do it. We might even run it better, because even despite trying, we won’t be able to do a worse job than this.” During the show, the actor spoke about various spaces that hold significance in the hearts and memories of many Karachiites, spaces that are now in ruins. One of those places is Gul Plaza. “There likely isn’t a house in Karachi that doesn’t have items from Gul Plaza in it,” he said about the shopping mall struck by a devastating fire last week, killing 61 people.