Neither was Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s Wasim Akhtar, the last elected mayor of Karachi, nor will Pakistan Peoples Party’s Barrister Murtaza Wahab, the newly appointed chief of.
Daily Times
July 27, 2021
Katchi Abadi residents of I-11 were evicted from their mud houses in 2015 by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) with the help of law enforcement agencies. Some 25,000 residents became homeless and quite expectedly, had put up a strong resistance. Scholars-activists, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar and Ammar Rashid, were also a part of this movement. They even wrote a journal article on it, which has been recently published by the Third World Quarterly. The authors analysed dispossession and “financialisation” from their Islamabad experience. I am going to refer to this journal publication in today’s article and discuss a personal example of the bad property experience in the West.
801 Rural Revenue Centres inspected
July 2, 2021
LAHORE: Revenue Department officials have completed inspection of 801 Rural Revenue Centres (RRC) across the province. According to sources, the 17 officials of Revenue Dept submitted reports of RRCs to Senior Member Board of Revenue Thursday. The officials checked all facilities and technical issues during their inspection.
They found acute shortage of the staff which they mentioned in their reports. It was observed that clerks were operating the computers in the RRCs. The meeting of full board would be held on Friday (today) in which opinions of all officials would be sought. Chairman Punjab Privatisation Board inspected Multan and Khanewal, Secretary Revenue inspected Chakwal and Jhelum, Secretary S&C inspected MB Din and Gujrat, Secretary S&R inspected Layyah and Muzaffargarh, Secretary Colonies inspected Faisalabad and TT Singh, Director Land Record inspected Chiniot and Jhang, DG Katchi Abadi inspected Narowal and Sialkot, M
The Sindh High Court on Friday restrained the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, the Karachi Development Authority and others from taking any action against the residents of Gulshan-e-Mustafa.
Man shoots wife, kills himself after family dispute
National
March 17, 2021
SUKKUR: A man shot dead his wife and later himself over a domestic dispute with his wife in Katchi Abadi near Had Jamrao Road, district Sanghar.Reports said Samina, w/o Aamir Bhatti, a serving soldier, went to the local police station to register a complaint against her husband after a quarrel over a domestic issue. Upon her arrival from the police station, the husband allegedly shot his wife dead and later he shot himself dead. The police shifted the bodies to a local hospital for medico-legal formalities, saying that the couple left a two-year-old girl, Ana Bibi, behind.