PA opposition leader booked in two cases
Karachi
February 8, 2021
A day after police accepted an application against the chief of the Anti-Encroachment Force for razing of farmhouses and allegedly robbing them in District Malir during an anti-encroachment operation, police on Sunday registered two separate cases against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Vice President and provincial assembly opposition leader Haleem Adil Sheikh and others for attempted murder, interference in government duties, and disruption during the anti-encroachment drive carried out at his relatives’ farmhouses, and blocking the M-9 Motorway.
The first case was registered at the Memon Goth police station under the sections 147, 148, 149, 186, 353, 324, 427, 504 and 506-B that pertain to disturbing peace, causing financial losses to government property, assault on government employees, attempted murder, intimidation, and interference in the government work.
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.
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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.
In this Sept 23 file photo, PTI MPA Haleem Adil Sheikh speaks to reporters outside Sindh Secretariat. APP
KARACHI: The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party and opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in Sindh engaged in a fresh conflict with each other on Saturday when the provincial administration launched an anti-encroachment drive on the outskirts of the city and demolished dozens of farmhouses reportedly owned by Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh and his family and recovering around 1,700 acres of state land.
As officials insisted that the action was part of a government drive in line with the Supreme Court’s directives against encroachments, the opposition leader and his party came up with a strong reaction describing the action of the PPP administration as political vendetta and vowed to take up the issue at all relevant forums.
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Sindh Building Control Authority Director General Shamsuddin Soomro has sent a summary to Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, seeking permission for recruitment in the SBCA on contractual basis.
Soomro is not satisfied with the working of SBCA officials.
In his letter to the CM, he complained of incompetent officials.
The SBCA is facing a shortage of manpower and a lack of