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30 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Participants walked out of public hearing of Gujjar, Orangi and Mehmoodabad Nullah projects over the absence of NDMA, @KmcPakistan @sswmb
The public hearing continued with literary six participants and seven Seepa officials.
So this is the public hearing of three projects which have already displaced thousands of families. Journalists and reporters are to be blamed as well. I was the only reporter covering this hearing - why the electronic media don’t event bother to send their reporters. Image
@ExpressNewsPK @etribune @Roznama_Express was just two-minute walk away from the venue of the public hearing.
The EIA report for Gujjar Orangi and Mehmoodabad Nullah has been prepared by some Lahore based Pak Green Enviro-Engineering company Image
The company’s representative walked towards me and told how he specially came Karachi for the public hearing and how sorry he felt that the people of Karachi don’t want to grow and don’t think for the future development projects.

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1 Dec
@aadilayub explained a major flaw in the EIA report of revamping and restoration of the Gujjar, Orangi and Mehmoodabad Nullah project, which has created a massive political chaos in the city.
This thread will make you understand the seriousness of NDMA, Sepa
A glance at the EIA report is enough to point out huge blunders. This EIA is for a project which is depriving thousands of families from their roofs. The company has charged millions of rupees to prepare this report. The NDMA has accepted it and submitted it to Sepa
Sepa is supposed to conduct public hearings. It manages it and takes into account grievances of affected people and loopholes in the EIA report pointed out by academia and civil society. This was one of its kind hearing, the Sepa official jumped in support of the report.
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1 Dec
Participants of a public hearing held on Tuesday to discuss the revamping and restoration of the Gujjar, Orangi and Mehmoodabad storm water drains walked out of it because representatives of the project’s main proponent, NDMA, were absent. thenews.com.pk/print/913116-n…
Sepa was said to have carried out a farcical public hearing on the project because not only NDMA representatives but officials of the KMC under whose administrative control these drains fall, the KWSB whose sewage flows in these drains, and the SSWMB were also uncannily absent.
Sepa Deputy Director Imran Sadiq, who was conducting the public hearing, kept whispering about the whereabouts of NDMA officials with Sepa staff during the hearing, and was visibly irked by their absence.
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If the #NaslaTower is to be demolished, a sizeable chunk of developments along either side of Sharea Faisal comprising the Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society (SMCHS) would also have to be flattened. thenews.com.pk/print/902871-n…
There are scores of multistorey buildings on the main Sharea Faisal that have to be knocked down, according to the Nasla Tower management committee and SMCHS Secretary Shuaib Alam, who asserted that it is for the same reason the SC has cited in its Nasla Tower demolition orders
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on the watch of three political parties, PPP, MQM and Jamaat-e-Islami, the Aladin Shopping Mall and Pavilion End Club continued to function without any hindrance over the amenity plot at the main Rashid Minhas Road.

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The News investigated how the illegality was allowed by the KMC mayors and the provincial governments and the management of the park.
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Nida and Waqas had planned to surprise their family in Karachi by arriving in the city from Lahore along with their two children before Eidul Fitr. #PIAPlaneCrash thenews.com.pk/print/663054-o…
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Passengers of Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) ill-fated PK-8303 were less than 10 seconds away from touching the runway and seeing their loved ones, when their plane fell on houses of the Jinnah Garden in Model Colony on Friday afternoon. thenews.com.pk/print/662666-t…
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All her brothers and cousins were at the airport to receive her. All of a sudden there was some unrest at the arrival lounge and everyone rushed towards the TV screen.
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