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#HappeningNow: The Karachi Urban Lab has organised a meeting with representatives and activists from communities facing the threat of displacement due to development projects across Karachi
@KarachiUrbanLab @UrbanPlannerNED
@KarachiUrbanLab @UrbanPlannerNED
This meeting has been organised to bring different stake-holders together so that they can share the situation on-ground and discuss a way forward. #Displacement #UrbanInequality
In August 2020, unprecedented monsoon rains resulted in urban flooding in Karachi. As a result, the process of cleaning the city’s drains (nullahs) was initiated, putting informal settlements in their vicinity at risk of demolitions. #inequality
One month ago, PPP Chairman @BBhuttoZardari performed the ground-breaking of the Malir Expressway: a 38.5-kilometre-long expressway connecting Karachi’s city centre to the M-9 motorway.
This project is expected to dispossess indigenous communities of their land.
This project is expected to dispossess indigenous communities of their land.
26 settlements along the #KarachiCircularRailway track are under the threat of demolitions to make way for its revival. These demolitions have been on-going since the past 2 years.
Some settlements have already been demolished, with no steps taken to #rehabilitate the affectees
Some settlements have already been demolished, with no steps taken to #rehabilitate the affectees
“There is a need to put up a united and progressive front against all of these demolition campaigns scheduled to take place across the city,” says a representative from @CaritasPakistan who works with residents living along the Gujjar Nalla
“Government employees leading demolition campaigns are the same people who exploit working class people by demanding bribes in return for allowing them to build informally in the first place” - community representative
“Bahria Town continues to encroach on indigenous land and resources but media coverage is inadequate. Plans to build an industrial zone near the Malir river will result in irreversible damage to the area’s communities and ecology” - says activist @BalochHafeez201
“The government always withholds information from communities - the most important ingredient of resistance is technical knowledge and information. Communities under threat must take necessary steps to survey their settlement them self...” says activist and researcher Shamsuddin
“Demolition campaigns are always arbitrary. We were never given an eviction notice, and were told to make arrangements for shelter in less than 24 hours.” - Sagheer Ahmed, member of KCR Affectees Committee
#Karachi #demolitions #encroachment
#Karachi #demolitions #encroachment
Any sustainable development plans for Karachi should involve environmental experts otherwise this city will soon be at the brink of disaster,” says Khalid Mehmood Alam from Mahol Bachao Forum
