This is the story of how Karachi lost the largest urban green space of Asia to various kinds of encroachments under patronage of various political mafias
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The Supreme Court of Pakistan came down on the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Tuesday for illegally allotting amenity plots for commercial and residential purposes. The top court resumed hearing the Gutter Baghicha case at its Karachi Registry Monday. During the proceeding on December 28, NGO Shehri s Amber Ali Bhai told the court that over 1,000 acres of the Gutter Baghicha land was encroached upon for housing and industrial plants.
Karachi Commissioner Iqbal Memon has constituted an eight-member committee for the evaluation and selection of the company to demolish Nasla Tower using a controlled blast. An offer of expression of interest was published on October 27 in leading newspapers for the demolition of the 15-storey residential building under a Supreme Court order. The Nasla Tower is built over 1,121 square yards on Plot No193-A in the Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society or SMCHS at Shahrae Faisal. According to a notification issued by the Commissioner Office on Friday, the committee will assess and evaluate companies for their technical expertise. The members will have one day to review the comp.