CHILDREN hold protest outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday. Photo by the author
KARACHI: Hundreds of children from the Gujjar and Orangi nullahs staged a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday, appealing to the Supreme Court to not lift the stay on demolitions.
The recent demolitions, caused in the wake of SC’s August 20 order regarding the cleaning of city’s storm-water drains have already rendered a large number of children homeless, whereas a conservative estimate suggests that at least 21,000 children will be left without homes by the end the demolitions.
Holding placards, the children highlighted the humanitarian crisis that has developed in Karachi’s district Central in the aftermath of the demolitions.
A large number of children belonging to the families that have been affected by the evictions caused by the operation to clear the Gujjar and Orangi storm water drains of encroachments held a.
CHILDREN hold protest outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday. Photo by the author
KARACHI: Hundreds of children from the Gujjar and Orangi nullahs staged a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday, appealing to the Supreme Court to not lift the stay on demolitions.
The recent demolitions, caused in the wake of SC’s August 20 order regarding the cleaning of city’s storm-water drains have already rendered a large number of children homeless, whereas a conservative estimate suggests that at least 21,000 children will be left without homes by the end the demolitions.
Holding placards, the children highlighted the humanitarian crisis that has developed in Karachi’s district Central in the aftermath of the demolitions.
May 16, 2021
Mere supply of water to the city will not quench Karachi’s thirst. The supply has to be equitable and safe
I am a twitterholic. I use it to rant, to source information and to engage with interesting people. Of late, I have started posting what to most other people may seem mundane, but has supreme importance in my life. Like the day I received water in my pipeline. I have started noticing a pattern in such tweets. They occur once every 18-20 days. In between these days, I celebrate receiving a water tanker (that I pay for).
In Karachi, the haves and the have-nots have all experienced the equaliser known as the water shortage. The difference between the two demographics being, of course, the ability to purchase the diminishing resource by one as opposed to the other segment of population. This being the case also for most other services and commodities given the inequitable system we live under.