Civil society, residents fear massive displacement due to Malir Expressway project
Karachi
February 11, 2021
Showing their concerns over the displacement of families because of the ongoing anti-encroachment drive along the Gujjar Nullah and Mehmoodabad Nullah in Manzoor Colony, the construction of the Malir Expressway, and expansion and reconstruction of ML-1, a group of urban planners, civil society activists and residents said on Wednesday the federal and Sindh governments had been committing human rights violations by demolishing homes of working class people.
This observation was made at the Karachi Press Club at a news conference, held under the banner of the Joint Action Committee Karachi, an alliance of civil society groups.
Drive to turn Gujjar Nullah into ‘model storm water drain’ begins
Karachi
February 9, 2021
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has once again launched a major operation to clear the massive Gujjar Nullah in the city’s District Central of encroachments.
The first phase of the operation will last about a week, during which soft encroachments will be removed. In the next stage the KMC will take around 10 days to demolish over 4,000 houses, commercial units and eight to 10 mosques situated on the storm water drain’s banks.
Almost every year before monsoon, the KMC with the help of the Sindh government and, sometimes, the federal government, and with the involvement of the Pakistan Army and the National Disaster Management Authority not only cleans the nullah but also removes soft encroachments, which include cow sheds, kiosks, tea shops and small-scale commercial units.
4,000 houses to be demolished to clear banks of Gujjar Nullah
Karachi
February 5, 2021
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) Anti-Encroachment Department will start its operation to clear the banks of the massive Gujjar Nullah on Monday. Anti-Encroachment Senior Director Bashir Siddiqui said that around 4,000 houses have been marked by the district administration for demolition.
Siddiqui said that during the first phase starting on Monday, soft encroachments will be removed, just like in the case of the Mehmoodabad Nullah anti-encroachment operation. Soft encroachments like animal dens, small hotels, kiosks, iron grills, gates and balconies will be removed, which will help pave the way for the KMC’s heavy machinery to enter the area, he added.
Gujjar Nullah to be cleared of encroachments starting February 3
Karachi February 2, 2021
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed Karachiâs administration to start an operation on February 3 to clear the Gujjar Nullah of encroachments. He has also ordered constructing a water channel from Saadi Town to the Lat Dam to save the area from urban flooding.
âI want to construct another dam on upstream Lat Dam so that wastewater and rainwater can be stored there for agricultural purposes apart from recharging the groundwater aquifers of District Malir.â The chief executive took these decisions on Monday at the CM House, where he was chairing a meeting of the Provincial Coordination & Implementation Committee.
Ani-Terrorism Financing Unit confiscates Rs10.24 billion, registers 144 cases, arrest 90
Karachi, January 25, 2021 (PPI-OT): The terrorists have no ethnicity, religion, language and nationality but it is their mindset and inhuman proclivity which group them together with like-minded elements, therefore we will have to keep threat assessment to keep our city, the province and the country safe and secure. This was stated by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah while presiding over 25th APEX Committee meeting here at CM House.
The meeting was attended by Minister Information Nasir Shah, Advisor law Murtaza Wahab, Corps Commander Karachi, Chief secretary, IG Sindh, DG Rangers, ACS Home, PSC, Commissioner Karachi, Adl IG Karachi, Prosecutor General, Secretary excise, provincial heads of intelligence agencies and other concerned.