Pakistan’s largest city is usually the butt of just about everyone’s anger, wrath or jokes, depending on who you talk to. Mostly, it’s people who don’t like the PPP, which makes for a rather large group of people in the city – meaning people partial to other parties and even those who may be not pro any party but are avid social media users, and hence tend to follow the strong narrative there which insinuates that the PPP can do nothing good for Karachi, or for Sindh for that matter. Of course, that is not the reality, but in today’s world, as they say, perception is reality.

Back to Karachi and its mayor, Barrister Murtaza Wahab, known for his active and intelligent use of social media to disseminate all he’s doing for the city as its mayor. Of course, this will always have its detractors, and the most common response of the naysayers is that if he is doing anything constructive for the city, then that is his job and there’s no need to publicise it. However, given the very negative impression the PPP generally has on social media, it’s a smart move on the part of the Karachi mayor to use his social media handle.

Some of the biggest challenges Mayor Wahab faces include traffic, water, drainage, sanitation and solid waste management. For a city of over 20 million people, all these are going to be formidable challenges in........

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