On day two of the second phase of the massive anti-encroachment operation for clearing both sides of the Mehmoodabad Nullah in District East, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation continued.
Karachi
January 12, 2021
A little more than half a kilometre of the bank of Karachiâs Mehmoodabad Nullah was rid of hard encroachments as the second phase of the operation for clearing both sides of the storm water drain started on Monday.
Six or seven houses were partially demolished, while the rest of the residents of the locality were told to vacate their homes in two or three days. Last weekâs four-day operation of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) saw the land on either side of the nullah cleared of all kinds of soft encroachments in the presence of a heavy contingent of police and other law enforcers.
People whose houses will be demolished to be provided rent for two years, says Nasir
Karachi
January 11, 2021
The residents of houses to be demolished in anti-encroachment drives will be provided house rent for two years.
Sindh Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah made this promise on Sunday as he paid a visit to the Mehmoodabad Nullah where a major anti-encroachment operation is scheduled to start today (Monday).
The minister said that after the Mehmoodabad nullah, encroachments would be removed from other areas in Karachi as well.
He also announced that the Sindh government was planning a housing scheme where the people affected by anti-encroachment drives would be given a priority.
Karachi
January 8, 2021
On the fourth and final day of its four-day anti-encroachment operation on both sides of cityâs Mehmoodabad Nullah, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) on Thursday cleared all kinds of soft encroachments.
KMC Anti-Encroachment Senior Director Bashir Siddiqui, speaking to The News, said all kinds of soft encroachments, including sunshades, walls, iron grills, stairs, chairs and tables of tea shops, restaurants, cabins, kiosks and faulty parked vehicles, had been removed.
Debris from the area would be removed on Friday and Saturday to make a passage for heavy machinery for the demolition of hard encroachments from Monday, he said. Earlier, the operation had been postponed indefinitely on November 19 after residents of the Mehmoodabad neighbourhood had staged a massive and violent protest against the drive.
Mehmoodabad residents move court to restrict anti-encroachment teams
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The Sindh High Court adjourned the hearing of plea challenging the Federal Investigation Agency s graft inquiry against the National Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases indefinitely on Tuesday.
The NICVD administration s plea maintains that the health facility falls under the provincial government. Therefore, contends the plea, an inquiry by the FIA on any matters pertaining to the NICVD is illegal and federal authority should be restricted.
The court has already issued notices to the Sindh advocate-general and the attorney-general of Pakistan, and has sought progress reports and records pertaining to the inquiry from the FIA.