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It used to be that if you went to Baldia, you were on Farooq Dada’s turf. The MQM muscleman may have been summarily dispatched to a higher plane in 1995 in a police encounter but his spirit lingered on in name. For years no other party’s candidate stood a chance in this part of Karachi. All that changed this April. Farooq Dada’s legacy finally ran out in the by-election held in Baldia Town for its NA-249 seat. The MQM came in sixth with 7,511 votes. With this, the MQM solidified a spectacular losing streak: it has lost the last four out of five by-elections in Karachi. LOST PS-114 (Mehmoodabad)WON PS-94 (Landhi)LOST PS-88 (Malir)LOST NA-243 (Gulshan-e-Iqbal) LOST NA-249 (Baldia) .
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.