File photo of Parveen Rehman. PHOTO: NPR
Media reports said that Rehman was targeted while traveling in her car near the Banaras flyover.
Governor Sindh Ishratul Ebad took notice of Rehman’s death and has ordered a special team to investigate her case and arrest the suspects.
“Killing a social worker is inhumane,” the governor said.
The Orangi Pilot Project is a socially innovative project that involves residents solving sanitation problems of the community.
In the OPP, people pooled up to Rs3,000 a house in a lane to finance, manage and maintain latrines in their homes, underground sewerage lines in the lanes and secondary sewers.
OPP's low-cost sewers changed neighbourhoods not just in Karachi, where it got its start in 1981, but as far away as Battagram in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
It also has a research and development department, covering issues related to other areas of Karachi.
According to NPR, Rehman was working for a famous architectural firm but she left it to work on the OPP. She also headed a research centre in Orangi.
18 people were killed in a Rangers operation in Orangi Town earlier today.
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