Taking back land: Pakistan Railway’s land freed from squatters

Operation is first phase of railways land recovery campaign, which started on directions of Khawaja Saad Rafique.


Our Correspondent December 14, 2013
“We are setting up a check post at the area to avoid similar encroachment,” said Railways SSP Police Robin Yamin. PHOTO: FILE

KARACHI:


The Pakistan Railways Karachi Division recovered 55 acres of its land in Jumma Goth of Shah Latif town after an operation against land grabbers on Saturday.


The police arrested a man who was running an estate agency and was selling plots from the railways’ land. The police and railway officials demolished the shanties constructed by the people who were growing vegetables on the land for years. Railways houses and quarters in the area which were illegally occupied were also cleared.


“We are setting up a check post at the area to avoid similar encroachment,” said Railways SSP Police Robin Yamin, adding that 50 police personnel of his department and a police mobile of the Shah Latif police participated in the operation. “We did not receive any retaliation from the grabbers and an FIR has been registered against the person who was arrested from the spot.”


The operation is the first phase of the railways land recovery campaign, which started on the directions of the federal minister for Pakistan Railways, Khawaja Saad Rafique.


“We have started a campaign which will continue in different phases,” Divisional Engineer-3, Shaukat Sheikh.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2013.

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