Anti-Encroachment: KCR to trample 4,000 houses

KARACHI: More than 4,000 houses will be demolished on the route of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR), decided officials in a meeting held under Sindh Transport Minster Nasir Hussain Shah and was attended by Karachi Commissioner Aijaz Ahmed Khan and the deputy commissioners of all the districts of the city. According to Shah, the strategy to demolish the houses has been prepared and every house on the track will be demolished. On the directives of Pakistan Peoples Party chairperson Bilawal Bhutto, he assured that they will rid the people of Karachi from daily traffic jams. Apart from KCR, he said that the remaining transport projects will soon be completed in the city.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 28^th, 2017.