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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
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Sohail Rab Khan - Posted: May 6, 2021 | Last Updated: 3 weeks ago
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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 t ....

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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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