With anti-encroachment operations under way along Karachi’s nullahs, activists and affected residents continue to denounce the move, terming it illegal.
Residents demand immediate halt to KMC operations along Gujjar, Orangi nullahs
Karachi
April 17, 2021
The Karachi Bachao Tehreek has demanded immediately halting the “illegal anti-encroachment operation” at the Gujjar and Orangi nullahs.
Addressing a news conference at the Karachi Press Club on Friday, its members also demanded that the people affected by the operation be provided with alternative accommodation as per a Supreme Court order, and not a Rs90,000 cheque.
Since February, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) anti-encroachment department has illegally demolished thousands of leased houses constructed at a little distance from Gujjar and Orangi storm water drains, they said, adding that thousands of such more houses were to be demolished by the corporation in the future.
The Gulberg police have released three members of the Karachi Bachao Tehreek, who were detained for resisting the Gujjar nullah anti-encroachment operation Sunday afternoon. On Sunday, a team of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation s anti-encroachment department reached Farooq-e-Azam Colony in FB Area Block-12 with heavy machinery to demolish houses built along the drain. KBT Convener Khurram Ali, Abid Asghar and others reached the site too. They told KMC staff that the residents have filed a case in an anti-encroachment tribunal, which is likely to stay the demolition of houses. KBT members said the tribunal has sought replies from the authorities on April 14 and till then, the dem.
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