-KCCI president says the ongoing anti-encroachment drive is not purely targeting encroachments, as genuine shopkeepers are being targeted on purpose. They said that although the Supreme Court ordered KMC to remove all encroachments over nullahs, footpaths and inside the parks but unfortunately, it has been observed that the KMC authorities were not adhering to the court’s order and have resorted to razing all KMC markets and shops without any fairness and transparency. It was said that all the wrongdoings under anti-encroachment drive by KMC have to be immediately stopped with a view to save thousands of shopkeepers from getting deprived of their daily bread and butter. “As the anti-encroachment drive has resulted in making huge number of people completely jobless, we fear that the situation was likely to give birth to criminals, posing severe threat to the law and order situation of Karachi where peace has finally started prevailing,” they said. “They all are responsible and now they just want to wipe out everything under SC’s order to save their necks and hide their wrongdoings,” they added.

Source: Pakistan Today January 08, 2019 15:09 UTC