KMC brings down private school, other encroachments in two districts

The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) carried out an anti-encroachment operation in the South and East districts of the city on Friday.

According to details shared by KMC senior director anti-encroachment Bashir Siddiqui, the operation took place at two places in District South. On Maripur Road, several shanties, car workshops, hotels, tea kiosks, tyre puncture shops and other kinds of encroachments were removed from the surroundings of the Lyari Grid Station.

In Agra Taj Colony, several shops, hotels and tea kiosks were removed from the surroundings of Ghazi Muhammad Bin Qasim School. The shops and hotels according to Siddiqui were attached with the walls of the school.

KMC deputy director anti-encroachment Asif Jetha supervised the operation while Lyari assistant commissioner Kareem Memon coordinated with different governmental agencies.

In District East, the Educator School constructed over the Mehmoodabad Nullah was demolished. Other kinds of encroachments were also removed from along the nullah.

The Aladin Amusement Park, which had been housing the Aladin Shopping Mall and the Pavilion End Club, is also being demolished.

On June 14, the Supreme Court had declared both of them illegal and ordered their demolition within two days. The KMC then sprang into action and complied with the order.

The food complex, the Pavilion End Club and the shopping mall inside the club were being demolished on the orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, said Siddiqui, adding that the central building of the Pavilion End Club and its various huts were being razed.

The corporation has also brought down the KDA (Karachi Development Authority) Club on Kashmir Road. The kitchen, wedding halls, a play land, the caterer’s five warehouses and two other buildings had been demolished there, said Siddiqui.