Filthy rich: A Karachi sewer operation for a sick city
Garbage and not squatters is the real reason it floods SAMAA | Mahim Maher and Sohail Khan - Posted: Jan 19, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago SAMAA | Mahim Maher and Sohail Khan Posted: Jan 19, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago
Two naughty little boys are having a conversation sitting on top of an empty king-sized sewerage pipeline behind a swarm of city officials surveying Manzoor Colony nullah.
âTera ghar to gira rahey hain,â one of them says. Theyâre demolishing your house.
âAbey, tujhe kaise pata?!â How the hell do you know?
âKyunke wo nishaan laga ke gae na!â he repliesâand then, as if to assuage his buddyâs feelings, hastily and a tad mournfully, adds: âMeri to poori galli ja rahi he.â Because they marked it. My entire alleyway is going…
Karachi
January 12, 2021
A little more than half a kilometre of the bank of Karachiâs Mehmoodabad Nullah was rid of hard encroachments as the second phase of the operation for clearing both sides of the storm water drain started on Monday.
Six or seven houses were partially demolished, while the rest of the residents of the locality were told to vacate their homes in two or three days. Last weekâs four-day operation of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) saw the land on either side of the nullah cleared of all kinds of soft encroachments in the presence of a heavy contingent of police and other law enforcers.