Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has offered an international audit of Sindh's flood housing programme, rejecting claims of corruption as the province marked the completion of one million climate-resilient homes for families hit by the 2022 floods.

Speaking at a ceremony at the Chief Minister's House in Karachi on Tuesday, Bilawal asked Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah to invite international organisations to examine the scheme and its funding. He said he could state with confidence that no corruption had taken place in the project, and accused political opponents of running a campaign to damage the provincial government's reputation.

One million homes, with 2.1 million planned

The Sindh Peoples Housing for Flood Affectees has completed 1,007,111 houses across 23 districts, in what the provincial government describes as the world's largest housing reconstruction programme. The overall plan is to rebuild 2.1 million climate-resilient homes for more than 15 million people affected by the 2022 floods.

Murad Ali Shah said every completed house had been geo-tagged, digitally monitored and independently verified at each stage of construction. The World Bank has committed $500 million to the programme, while the Sindh government has put in $179 million, with support also from the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank and the European Investment Bank.

Ownership and land rights

Bilawal said one million families had been given ownership of the land under their homes, describing it as the largest transfer of land since 1970. He contrasted Sindh's progress with Balochistan, where he said only 30,000 houses had been built in three years.

At the same event, Bilawal repeated his call for a "political reset" through unity, urging the federal government to rebuild trust with its allies and the opposition rather than opening new confrontations. Source: The News