KARACHI: Following the anti-encroachment drive in Garden area of the metropolis, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has initiated a clean-up drive on Tuesday. According to details, thousands of tons rubble of more than 400 shops and other encroachments around the Karachi Zoo locality is being cleaned up from the city. Three teams of KMC were assigned with the task of clean-up drive whereas another three teams were still razing illegal buildings in the area. The operation has been ongoing in Karachi’s Garden area by the KMC officials for a couple of days now. The shops, the shopkeepers claimed, were rented out to them by the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation in 1960s which are in use ever since.

Source: Pakistan Today January 08, 2019 09:02 UTC