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South Asia: Drive for profit fuels effort to evict poor By Tania Siddiqi posted on May 12, 2021 Karachi residents resist ongoing illegal demolitions and forced evictions. In Pakistan, Karachi Bachao Tehreek (KBT), an alliance of local activists struggling against evictions and illegal land grabs, reported that Bahria Town personnel, the town’s private guards, and Sindh province’s police entered various Goths [small neighborhoods populated mainly by Sindhi people] May 7 with heavy machinery, intending to further encroach on poor Indigenous people’s lands. Abdul Hafeez, a member of Sindh Indigenous Rights Alliance, informed the newspaper “Dawn” that guards and police attempted to destroy crops with bulldozers in Kamal Khan Jokhio Goth. Community members responded by engaging in acts of resistance against the intruders. After one person threw a stone at Bahria Town personnel, guards began shooting at the villagers. ....
“We have spent our childhood and youth in these houses,” said Abid Asghar, a leader of the Gujjar Nala affectees. White Star/File KARACHI: A human chain was formed alongside the Gujjar Nala, from Liaquatabad Daak Khana to the Khamosh Colony graveyard under the banner of the Awami Workers Party, Women Democratic Front and Progressive Students Federation on Saturday. The demonstration was organised by the victims of illegal evictions in the Gujjar Nala and Orangi Nala areas, as well as the K-Electric Labour Union, SSGC Insaf Jafakash Union, and Progressive Trade Union Federation. A large number of Karachi citizens, including women and children, participated in the protest and chanted slogans against the federal and provincial governments. ....
March 14, 2021 The personal but mercurial style, which indicates expanse and ambition, is intelligent enough to invite us to experience the bitterness and joys of being alive Reading the title of the film, one feels that Prateek Vats’s Eeb Allay Ooo! couldn’t have found a better slogan for itself. This spectacle is the fruit of avant-garde cinema – the same vision as the poets behind Nagarik and Vats is neither following in the vein of de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves nor emulating the romantic, fantastical situations of Pather Panchali. Instead, a slightly bizarre but mostly unassuming individual is put in situations where he is pitted against himself – he is looking for what interests him; he is struggling to get a job that he likes. The general tone is a conversation in metaphors on different issues in society, class and religious politics and the plight of migrant workers. But the starting point of this conversation is a monologue of th ....
Bahria Town Karachi’s outline superimposed on satellite imagery of New York to give a sense of the spatial scale of the project. A land use change over such a large area is not a part of any official plan | Mapping by Rida Khan (Advocacy planner, urban designer) Every day in the print and electronic media there is news about the terrible physical, social and municipal governance issues of Karachi and how they affect the lives of ordinary citizens. These conditions are blamed on a variety of factors, most of them political in nature. It is argued that if a proper local government system is implemented, these problems will be overcome. ....