Karachi Bachao Tehreek asks for housing for people affected by the open channel operation

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The leaders of Karachi Bachao Tehreek (KBT) on Monday asked Sindh’s Minister of Education Saeed Ghani to ask Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) to reduce the planned 30-foot-wide project along the Gujar and Orangi open channels. The road was in his constituency, and the road along Mehmoodabad Nullah was reduced to 12 feet.
At the press conference, KBT convener Khurram Ali criticized the Sindh government for threats, intimidation and brutal treatment of protesters outside Bilawal House, and condemned their arrest.
The Sindh police arrested about 150 people, including activists of KBT, Women’s Democratic Front, and women and children affected by the anti-occupation movement of the Gujar and Orangi Nullahs. The sit-in activity was organized outside Bilawal House to request the rehabilitation of families affected by the anti-appropriation movement. The protesters were taken to at least three different police stations-Clifton Police Station, Darakhshan Police Station and Women and Children Police Station. They were released when KBT held an emergency press conference to condemn the arrest.
“After the provincial government ignored their request for rehabilitation, the affected people decided to go to the Birawar House,” Ali said. “These are your people. Talk to them,” he said when criticizing the provincial government’s order to arrest protesters.
The lawyer and Gujjar Nullah affected person, Khwaja Altaf, stated that under the Sindh Province Anti-Equipment Law, the leased property cannot be declared embezzled. “This is an abuse of the law, clearly!” he said. “Our only request is to give us a home, a home,” he added.
When Erum Yasmin, Vice Chairman of the Gujjar Nullah Affected People’s Committee recounted the incident and harassment of the day, the affected people faced harassment even before the protest began. He said that the police raided the office where the affected people had a meeting in the Kausar Niazi colony. Placards that have confiscated the protesters should be carried.
The chairman of the committee, Arsalan Ghani, stated that the Sindh provincial government has not complied with any procedures and regulations stipulated by its law. “Why are we treated like this? If it were not the public, who would these laws support?” he asked.
JI’s demands
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman visited Nasrata on Monday to express his solidarity with the affected people and appealed to the Supreme Court of Pakistan to re-examine his decision to demolish the tower.
Rahman said at the press conference that JI condemned violations in principle, but also demanded that justice be done in letter and spirit. A few days ago, the Supreme Court ordered the demolition of Nasrata on the grounds that it had seized the land used as a service road. Detailed orders in this regard were issued on Saturday.
Rahman said that unilateral punishment of the tower’s end-user residents is unacceptable. “Persons affected in the verdict are not responsible for the occupation,” he explained, and all relevant authorities and departments have rectified the tower.
He said that when the tower was built, the responsibility for permitting encroachment should be borne by the authorities at the time, not by the innocent people living in the complex. He added that people living in the tower have been paying all taxes and debts imposed by the government. JI leaders said that real criminals should be punished. He asked what the fate of the IGP, land authorities, and other officials was at the time because they allowed the violation.
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