Encroachments around Ayesha Manzil removed

Karachi
During the ongoing anti-encroachment drive, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) removed encroachments around Ayesha Manzil, claimed a KMC official on Tuesday.
The anti-encroachment cell had previously removed encroachments from the area; however, they had cropped up again. KMC anti-encroachment cell director Mazhar Khan supervised the raid.

Jam Sadiq Bridge
Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Administrator Saqib Ahmed Soomro on Tuesday directed the technical services department to immediately complete the repairing work of the bridge.
He assigned the department the task to complete all necessary repair work within 24 hours to avoid any untoward situation on one of the busiest bridges of the metropolis.
The KMC administrator also instructed the director general technical services to form a team of engineers who would conduct a survey of the bridge.
Giving a briefing in this connection, DG TS Niaz Ahmed Soomro informed that the project of reconstruction of the bridge was already approved with an estimated cost of Rs127.5 million and now necessary measures were being taken to start the work.
He said this project was expected to be completed in the least possible time after the start of work in the next two months.
He further said that the KMC had arranged for repairing this bridge many times but now it needed to be reconstructed as it had much importance for the industrial area.
Cracks and gaps often appear in the bridge due to negligence and ignorance of the authority concerned.
The bridge was named after former Sindh chief minister Jam Sadiq Ali. Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan had inaugurated the bridge in 1991 when he was the provincial minister for housing and town planning.