Gujjar, Orangi and Original Sin
July 11, 2021
Karachi is a creature of the Frankensteinian variety – assembled by stitching together body parts from a dozen different corpses. Body parts that shouldn’t go together but have been forced to throb to the same spluttering heartbeat. A beast created by man.
Organs now grow at their own will – cancerous growths swelling into each other, suffocating one another. Flailing limbs tethered to twenty puppeteers – from the KMC to the DMC, and the KDA to the DHA.
Karachi is hard work, but if you make it, you’ll find ways to filter out the noise. Sixteen million people accept this bargain every day. It’s still no beauty; but it’s a beast that can be tamed. As the city coughs up black fumes for the sea breeze to carry into the lungs of the powerless, the powerful roll up their windows.
The Gulberg police have released three members of the Karachi Bachao Tehreek, who were detained for resisting the Gujjar nullah anti-encroachment operation Sunday afternoon. On Sunday, a team of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation s anti-encroachment department reached Farooq-e-Azam Colony in FB Area Block-12 with heavy machinery to demolish houses built along the drain. KBT Convener Khurram Ali, Abid Asghar and others reached the site too. They told KMC staff that the residents have filed a case in an anti-encroachment tribunal, which is likely to stay the demolition of houses. KBT members said the tribunal has sought replies from the authorities on April 14 and till then, the dem.
KMC begins demolition of leased houses along Gujjar and Orangi drains
Karachi
March 16, 2021
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporationâs (KMC) anti-encroachment department has started demolitions of leased houses and commercial units surrounding Karachiâs mighty Gujjar Nullah.
The Gujjar Nullah is a natural drain in the city that starts flowing from New Karachi and ends at the Chuna Depot in Haju Mureed Goth, Teen Hatti, where it falls into the Lyari River. The original length of the nullah was 13 kilometres and it was 210 feet wide. In a massive anti-encroachment operation planned at Gujjar Nullah in the District Central on Monday, the corporation started demolitions of proper houses at three different points.
An anti-encroachment tribunal restrained on Monday the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) from demolishing the houses built over duly leased land during an ongoing operation along Gujjar Nullah. Fahim Siddiqi / White Star
KARACHI: An anti-encroachment tribunal restrained on Monday the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) from demolishing the houses built over duly leased land during an ongoing operation along Gujjar Nullah.
The tribunal, headed by its presiding officer Shakil Ahmed Abbasi, stayed the demolition activity for 15 days on two separate suits filed by residents of Federal B Area and New Karachi against possible demolition of their houses on the leased land along the nullah.