Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) submitted a resolution in the Sindh assembly against Bahria Town and local administration while opposition leader Haleem Adil Sheikh visited the villagers on the outskirts of Karachi who were evicted from their land allegedly by the town’s employees with alleged help of local administration.
The resolution was moved by Sindh Assembly Leader of Opposition Haleem Adil who said that PTI would fight for the rights of victims and blamed the local government for assisting illegal land clearance.
It maintained that the Sindh government is hand clasped with Bahria Town management in the land grabbing.
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It further stated that the area locals were being victimized and forced to abandon their lands.
The resolution demanded to halt illegal occupation of lands in the province and to take action against the officials involved in it.
While talking to News360, Haleem Adil Sheikh shared that he was contacted by Faiz Gabool, son of Noor Mohammad Gabool, who requested him to raise the matter.
The opposition leader was of the view that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) paid the people of Sindh to buy votes and later abandoned them.
“We are here to serve and fight for the rights of people”, he assured the residents of Sindh.
The videos of Bahria town employees evicting inhabitants of a land on the outskirts of Karachi went viral on social media and caught the attention of civil society.
In 2019, it is pertinent to mention that a verdict was announced by Supreme Court (SC) against Bahria Town in a case regarding illegal occupation of 16,896 acres land in Malir district of Karachi.
The court accepted Rs 460 billion offer made by the management of Bahria Town as settlement for its Super Highway Project.
The settlement allowed the management to pay the amount in over seven years, however, no trace of any installment has been found so far.