Pakistan initiating demolition drive against Mojahirs in Karachi, claims MQM chief

London (United Kingdom), Jan 12 (ANI): Pakistan has started an anti-encroachment drive in Karachi, targeting Mohajirs and rendering them homeless, jobless, and forcing them to slavery, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said in his latest live address to the Mohajirs via social media. “It is at the behest of the establishment and in active connivance with the country’s apex court’s Chief Justice, the provincial government and the local Metropolitan Corporation, homes and shops of the Mohajirs have been demolished in the garb of encroachments, while the fact is that they are the real owners of their homes and shops. In some cases they are the tenants for decades and have regularly been paying the rent to the authorities concerned such as the Metropolitan Corporation,” Hussain said. “The authorities could only remove only those takeaway stalls which created a nuisance and led to traffic gridlocks and impeded free movement of the people on pavements and on roads but the action can never be justified if the authorities with the use of state powers and means demolish decade-long-established shops and homes and offices,” he added. Hussain stated that the menace of encroachment is rampant all over Pakistan, but the establishment only punishes the Mohajirs. “Therefore, the actions are only seen and limited to Karachi which is a Mohajir dominated port city.” According to the MQM chief, the historical Urdu Bazar, and the Shoe Market, which date back to 1947 or the year when Pakistan was founded, adjacent to Karachi’s Gandhi Garden, have also been demolished. Due to the indiscriminate demolition drive, millions of Mohajirs have lost their businesses and homes, who are now living under the open sky and their children are facing acute starvation. The MQM leader further said that the ongoing demolition drive is a well-knit scheme manifested by ‘the establishment’ of enslaving the Mohajirs and to make Karachi city its colony. Hussain at the same time also urged upon the Mohajirs that they should oppose the ongoing demolition drive and show their resistance or else they would be made slaves and their coming generation would be on the mercy of the establishment.

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