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SAMAA - Did the World Bank fund Karachi s nullah evictions?

Did the World Bank fund Karachi’s nullah evictions? $100m SWEEP project in hot water SAMAA | Sohail Rab Khan - Posted: May 6, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 weeks ago Editing & Writing | Mahim Maher SAMAA | Sohail Rab Khan Posted: May 6, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 weeks ago Buildings along a nullah in Liaquatabad being demolished to widen the waterway ahead of the monsoons in Karachi, March 18, 2021. Photo: Online/Sabir Mazhar There are two little stories about international donors that everyone who lives in Karachi should know.    In 1994, the World Bank gave the Sindh government a roadmap to privatise Karachi’s water supply. It shortlisted international utility companies as possible private operators. They were International Water, Thames Water, Severn Trent Water, Générale des Eaux, Lyonnaise des Eaux and Enron. The KW&SB trade unions and civil society challenged the privatisation in court by 1999 and the entire process was frozen. The Si

SAMAA - Filthy rich: A Karachi sewer operation for a sick city

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. “Tera ghar to gira rahey hain,” one of them says. They’re demolishing your house. “Abey, tujhe kaise pata?!” How the hell do you know? “Kyunke wo nishaan laga ke gae na!” he replies—and then, as if to assuage his buddy’s feelings, hastily and a tad mournfully, adds: “Meri to poori galli ja rahi he.” Because they marked it. My entire alleyway is going…

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