US withdrawal from Afghanistan has spurred curious events, including a quiet meeting between Pakistan NSA Moeed Yusuf & his US counterpart Jake Sullivan in Geneva.
A VIDEO recently went viral on social media where a client of Bahria Town Karachi addressed Malik Riaz and accused him of having deprived him of his plot of land. The very next day the Bahria Town management refunded him as a face-saving measure.
Similarly, like many victims, I also purchased a land of 500 square yards in Karachi’s Bahria Town Sports City in Precinct 43 in 2016. The next year, the Sindh High Court cancelled some land in possession of Bahria Town Karachi owing to illegal occupation, and imposed financial penalties too.
Till then, I had paid Rs2.3 million, but after this litigation I stopped payment of further installments. I am not alone. All those people whose plots of land were cancelled remain deprived of refund to date. In 2020, I got only my refund slip for the amount I had already paid, but the actual refund is nowhere in sight.
Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz landed in Lahore from Dubai on Sunday along with four other people. AFP/File
Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz, his wife and another member of his team allegedly refused to undergo Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) for the coronavirus upon landing at Lahore airport in violation of National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) instructions and SOPs, according to a senior official.
In a letter written to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) headquarters in Karachi dated May 17, 2021, Lahore airport chief operating officer and manager Akhtar Mirza said the Bahria Town CEO refused to give samples for the Covid-19 test even when a team of airport health staff went to his residence for the purpose.
Bahria Town Karachi officials and security personnel are seen in Kamal Khan Jokhio Goth in Malir. Photo: Karachi Bachao Tehreek Twitter
A resident of Karachi s Gadap Town was shot at and wounded on Friday in firing allegedly carried out by private guards and policemen in civvies during Bahria Town Karachi’s (BTK) move to bulldoze several agricultural lands to pave the way for housing projects in the outskirts of the city.
While police were reluctant to share information, an activist of Sindh Indigenous Rights Alliance and resident of Kathor area, Abdul Hafeez, said the BTK guards along with police tried to destroy the crops in Kamal Khan Jokhio Goth on Friday morning but the locals put up resistance and forced them to abandon the attempt.