1/ The History of Demolitions in Gujjarnala and Why Demolishing Houses Will Never Solve the Flooding Issue –a thread:
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2/ Land ownership in Sindh is dependent on power disparities, which result in contradictions and anti-poor sentiments in housing laws.
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3/ In 2016, KMC labeled leased houses in Gujjar Nala as encroachments on government land resulting in the removal of more than 4000 structures ranging from factories to schools. Some of the residencies dated back to the 1970s.
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4/ Victims of that anti-encroachment drive included a three-and-half-year-old girl who drowned when the KMC demolished their house along the drain in the Gulberg area ( https://www.dawn.com/news/1297596 )
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5/ Were the demolition necessary?
The initial project was supposed to end in 2017 with the claimed goal of sewerage and storm-water drain recovery. But in the aftermath of the 2020 floods, the nalas still overflowed.
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6/ Because the problem was never the houses, but the still-remaining waste dumped in the sewers.
Now, demolition work is still destroying leased houses of the poor under the guise of widening the nalas.
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