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340 acres of vegetables growing in sewage cleared, SHC told
Karachi
February 18, 2021
The administrations of the Malir and Korangi districts have destroyed the cultivation of vegetables through wastewater in the Ibrahim Hyderi and Murad Memon Goth areas, government officials told the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday.
Filing a progress report with regard to the action taken against the people involved in farming vegetables through sewage, the Malir and Korangi additional deputy commissioners said that the district administrations time and again made serious efforts to destroy the cultivation of vegetables through wastewater.
They said that the district administrations had cleared around 340 acres of vegetables growing in sewage, while over 25 cattle farms existing on the bed of Malir River were also dismantled.
Karachi
February 15, 2021
Despite the divided opposition, the provincial assembly constituency of PS-88 District Malir, which fall vacant in June last year after the death of provincial minister Ghulam Murtaza Baloch due to the novel coronavirus, poses a challenge to the Pakistan Peoples Party because of its urban votes and anxiety of the rural population over the construction of the Malir Expressway.
On February 8, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari held a meeting of the party’s parliamentarians, former local government chairmen and leaders from District Malir. It was his second meeting with the party’s Malir leadership within a few weeks for the PS-88 by-poll to be held tomorrow (February 16).
Demolition drive, protest and political strife in Karachi
Around 70 farmhouses razed across five dehs, two sub-divisions of Malir
A farmhouse being razed on the first day of a three-day anti-encroachment drive in Malir. The move sparked a protest, fol-lowing which the operation was suspended for the day. PHOTO: EXPRESS
KARACHI:
Citizens and cops clashed in Malir on Saturday, in the backdrop of an anti-encroachment drive, during which approximately 70 farm houses across five dehs and two sub-divisions were demolished and 548 acres of allegedly illegally occupied land was vacated.
Given that most of these farm houses were owned by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders- notably opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh- their relatives and other influential personalities, the demolition drive led finger pointing, with the ruling party in Sindh, the Pakistan Peoples Party, and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf engaging in a war of words.
Top Story
February 7, 2021
The feud between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) escalated on Saturday after the District Malir administration along with the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) apparently launched an anti-encroachment operation against only two farmhouses in the districtâs Memon Goth.
PTI Vice President and provincial assembly opposition leader Haleem Adil Sheikh later claimed that the farmhouses belonged to his brother and cousin. But Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah said that the operation was against encroachments in the Malir district.
Shah said that these anti-encroachment operations are a part of Prime Minister Imran Khanâs policy against land grabbers in the country. He requested the PTI leadership to support operations against land grabbers. According to SBCA officials, over 30 farmhouses in the area are to be demolished.