Anti-encroachment drive launched in Karachi's Gulshan-e-Iqbal

KARACHI: The Anti-Encroachment Department of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) on Saturday launched an operation against encroachment in KDA, Gulshan-e-Iqbal area, ARY News reported.

The anti-encroachment team has begun the operation, assisted by heavy contingent of police personnel, from Hasan Square.

Makeshift food street and other encroachment have been razed on several locations including near Civic Centre and Expo Centre.

It is pertinent to mention here that the 10th four-day International Defence Exhibition and Seminar IDEAS-2018 will commence on November 27 at Karachi Expo Centre.

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This humdinger of the anti-encroachment operation has have excellent effect all over the megalopolis as it has reduced traffic congestion.

The KMC on November 17 submitted a report to the commissioner Karachi, apprising about implementation on the directives of the Supreme Court regarding anti-encroachment operation in the city.

According to the report, as many as 2500 shops were razed at Empress Market and its adjoining Daudpota Road during the anti-encroachment drive. Similarly 480 illegal shops were demolished in the city’s Sohrab Goth Area. While 150 shops at Sarmad Shaheed Road were also bulldozed.

The top court on October 27 had directed Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar to remove all encroachments from the city’s amenity plots and pavements with the help of law enforcement agencies, and granted a 15-day deadline to city authorities for compliance of its orders.