LIVE: Residents of @DHAKarachiOfc, Clifton have started gathering to protest against the crisis brought on by the monsoon in which the entire area flooded
. @DHAKarachiOfc, CBC residents are holding a non-political protest. Their demands are:
- Rebuild the entire drainage system from scratch, following proper engineering standards.
- Fund it to cover at maintenance and repairs for 10 years, at least.
. @dhakarachiofc resident demands include:
-Audit of current and past accounts of CBC and transparent disclosure to residents
-Accountability for amounts spent on a non-functioning drainage system made in the middle of the roads
-Award damages to residents #Karachi
Update: Protest outside Karachi's DHA, Clifton cantonment board office going on right now. Our team reports that CBC has drained water from in front of its gate. A snippet here...
LIVE: Scores of people have gathered in what is probably the biggest protest of residents outside the @DHAKarachiOfc and Clifton Cantonment Board in #Karachi after the entire neighbourhood was declared calamity-hit in these monsoon rains
LIVE: The CBC CEO is coming out to talk to the protestors, reports @SohailRabKhan.
LIVE: DHA residents demand accountability in the protest happening now in Karachi. The entire neighbourhood flooded because the authority never properly planned for rains
LIVE: "Ahmed Chinoy ko bahir nikalo," chant the residents of DHA, Cantonment Board Clifton at this protest happening now in Karachi.
LIVE: "Get Ahmed Chinoy out," the protestors are chanting at the DHA and Cantonment Board Clifton office where people are demanding accountability after the crisis brought on by the monsoon rains.
LIVE: "We won't pay any more taxes," chant the protesters outside the DHA, CBC office. This is the biggest protest this office has seen in years. #Karachi
LIVE: Protest outside DHA office over monsoon crisis. Run by CBC: In case you want to check it out, this is the Cantt Board Clifton's make-up for its board
http://www.cbc.gov.pk/en//board-member
LIVE: "Bribe-takers answer us," says this poster from the DHA, Clifton Cantonment Board protest. Office surrounded in Karachi.
LIVE: @MJibranNasir is also at the DHA, CBC protest in #Karachi where residents are demanding where their tax money was spent when it came to storm water dainage
LIVE: To give you a sense of how many people have turned up at the DHA, CBC office in Karachi. An unprecedented protest.
FYI: Of all Karachi's cooperative societies, DHA is the largest, having about 7,000 acres of land or 5% of the city area.
DHA started out as Pakistan Defence Officers’ Cooperative Housing Society (PDOCHS). The PDOCHS started as a normal cooperative housing society that was registered under the 1860 Societies Act, and was part of the welfare received by retired army officers
At the end of 1970s development was slow and the society’s financial situation was deteriorating. In order to avert a crisis, the then military dictator Zia-ul-Haq, dissolved PDOCHS through an order and formed DHA as an autonomous new authority w extensive development rights...
...Clifton Cantonment was also established as part of this process, with the express purpose and mandate of looking after and maintaining the DHA (Source: IIED, Arif Hasan and Masooma Mohib https://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10625IIED.pdf)
The city’s newest cantonment was established with very different objectives from those set up by the British, and has evolved from a civilian-controlled organisation to an army-controlled authority whose administration is headed by a serving Brigadier
DHA has its own development plans, strategies and by-laws, and is not bound to follow decisions made by the city administration. Like other cantonments, it can share, consult with and receive advice from city gov but is not bound to follow its advice. (Arif Hasan, Masooma Mohib)
DHA is one of the largest land stakeholders in Karachi, not only because it holds five per cent of all the land in the city, but because this land is located in prime sites
DHA recently acquired an additional 5080 hectares of land to develop DHA city. Through the power of the army, the DHA and its affiliated cantonments have become major players in land politics, leading to land and property speculation for and by the elite: Hasan, Mohib
CORRECTION: This history of DHA is from a paper by ARIF HASAN, NOMAN AHMED, MANSOOR RAZA, ASIYA SADIQ,SAEED UD DIN AHMED and MOIZZA B. SARWAR for the IIED (not Masooma Mohib)
https://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10625IIED.pdf
LIVE: The area around the Cantonment Board Clifton and DHA office is still flooded, reported one resident who sent us this photo #Karachi
FYI: DHA is 5% of Karachi.
Cantonment Board Clifton was created through SRO No. 207(1)/ (83) dated 27-2-1983 to provide municipal cover to 8 DHA phases together with 13 Katchi Abadis and Blocks 8-9 of Clifton. 51.327 square kilometers (website)
Brig Abid Ali Askari is its president http://www.cbc.gov.pk/en/home 
FYI This is how Cantonment Board Clifton is divided according to its website http://www.cbc.gov.pk/en//sanitation  People are protesting there today as the entire area has been flooded for days over a lack of storm water drainage planning. CBC does not answer to KMC/GoS
FYI This is the 1980 law that Gen Zia made to create DHA and Clifton Cantonment
LIVE: This Khayaban-e-Bukhari flat resident explains why he came to the protest and how many taxes he pays. Protest continues outside @DHAKarachiOfc against CBC
LIVE: Clifton Cantonment Board guards look down at protestors waving slippers at them. Anger rose over the flooding at DHA #Karachi, an authority that is not connected to any city govt system, over the lack of storm water drainage despite taxes being paid.
UPDATE: We are hearing that the CBC CEO is coming to meeting the protestors.
CORR: We are confirming the CBC CEO's name. Deleted the last tweet. Apparently website not necessarily updated.
LIVE update: The CBC CEO has arrived to talk to protestors. This is a first in the history of the cantonment board.
Live updates: Cantonment Board Clifton just acquired a new CEO two weeks ago: Saleem Wattoo.
Live update: CBC CEO Saleem Wattoo just left without speaking. All he said was "Main aap logon ko yeh batana chahta hoon ke..." and then he got irked as people didn’t let him speak.
Live update: The protestors and cantonment board CEO were unable to have a discussion giving the chanting. He has returned inside.
Live update: 3 protestors have entered the office to speak to the CBC CEO. The rest of the protestors are sitting outside and waiting
Live update: Women are being allowed to enter the office
One woman protester who was allowed to enter the building tells us that the CBC officials didn't let them attend the meeting. Despite letting around 20 women into the building, they told them to wait in a separate room. The meeting is being attended by "DIGs", she said
Live update: Protesters outside the CBC office are distributing snacks to other protesters and the police. They're also picking up litter as they wait for the outcome of the meeting with the CEO
People at the protest have brought trash bags and are collecting litter outside the CBC office
Some plants on the steps of the CBC office didn't survive the protest.
Protesters crowded the steps when they tried to get into the building and later sat there while waiting for the CEO
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