Rain wreaked havoc in different parts of Karachi on Thursday afternoon, flooding the major thoroughfares as well as several other roads and streets in different areas of the city, with commuters.
Three pickpockets who robbed bus passengers for years held
Karachi
April 11, 2021
Personnel of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) Karachi on Saturday announced the arrests of three pickpockets who were allegedly involved in robbing citizens in public transport.
SIU chief Haider Raza said that according to information shared by a law enforcement agency, a gang of three pickpockets had been operating in different parts of the city for several years and depriving passengers of their cash, mobile phones and other valuables. They were also allegedly involved in drug peddling and robberies.
The pickpockets carried weapons and explosives while committing the crime.
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation started removing hard encroachments from the banks of the massive Gujjar Nullah on Thursday. Anti-Encroachment Senior Director Bashir Siddiqui said that all.
This story has been updated to include developments on compensation Feb. 23, 2021The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has demolished 75 concrete structures during an ongoing anti-encroachment operation along the Gujjar nullah. The operation was launched Thursday. The KMC started clearing the stormwater drain from Nala Stop in New Karachi. Senior KMC Director Bashir Siddiqui said they were targeting encroachments on a 4km strip from Nala Stop to Shafiq Morr. “We have completed 90% demolition work on the left side of the nullah,” he said.
Drive to turn Gujjar Nullah into ‘model storm water drain’ begins
Karachi
February 9, 2021
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has once again launched a major operation to clear the massive Gujjar Nullah in the city’s District Central of encroachments.
The first phase of the operation will last about a week, during which soft encroachments will be removed. In the next stage the KMC will take around 10 days to demolish over 4,000 houses, commercial units and eight to 10 mosques situated on the storm water drain’s banks.
Almost every year before monsoon, the KMC with the help of the Sindh government and, sometimes, the federal government, and with the involvement of the Pakistan Army and the National Disaster Management Authority not only cleans the nullah but also removes soft encroachments, which include cow sheds, kiosks, tea shops and small-scale commercial units.