MQM condemns the enforced
eviction of 1200 families of PIB Colony
LONDON. February 20, 2023
The Muttahida Quami Movement’s
Central Coordination Committee (CCC), has strongly condemned the
authoritarian orders of the authorities which 1200 families living in their
legal houses are asked to evict their houses immediately.
The enforced eviction of 1200
families of PIB Colony from their homes is unacceptable and the MQM strongly
condemns the estate authorities for such barbaric measure which are the
continuation of physical, financial and economical genocide of the Muhajirs.
The MQM has appealed to the
Supreme Court of Pakistan to take notice of such draconian steps and pass an
order for stopping these genocidal measures.
The CCC made this condemnation
and demand in an exigent press conference from Movement's international
secretariat in London.
CCC members Mustafa Azizabadi,
Qasim Ali Raza, Shahid Raza, Mahfouz Haidari and Sufyan Yusuf addressed.
They said that the PIB colony
was established following the partition of the sub-continent India that
resulted in formation of Pakistan. The Mohajirs had then left their properties
and businesses in India and migrated to Pakistan. Their houses in PIB Colony
date back to that partition.
Astonishingly, the state
authorities have with just a blink of an eye declared that1200 families living
on PIB Colony Plot No. 14 were illegal.
Following such an astonishing
thought, the authorities issued notices for the eviction within 24 hours and a
court decision is being tagged to justify such a draconian act of enforced
eviction.
The CCC has appealed to the
Supreme Court of Pakistan to take immediate notice of this matter, cancel the
cruel order to save the residents or else these 1200 families will be rendered
homeless.
It further said that many
spatial settlements are present in Karachi which have been regularised.
The CCC reminded that the
settlers from other provinces have encroached on public and private lands in
Karachi and constructed their cottages under the aegis of the authorities and
the governments regularised only for political gains while Muhajirs are
subjected to genocide from all aspects.
Earlier, the authorities had
rendered thousands of families, deprived them of their properties and
businesses after they bulldosed their legal houses and businesses at Railways
Colony, Musa Colony, Gharibabad, Empress Market Shops, Nasla Tower and Mujahid
Colony. Now, the 1200 families of PIB Colony are being witch-hunted for
enforced evictions.
This is sheer barbarism and this
has to be stopped. The announcement for such
enforced has dissipated a strong wave of anguish and concern and the MQM and
its founder ALTAF Hussain has been gripped with shock.
It said that none has dared to
carry such draconian measures against the Muhajirs before the creation of
pro-establishment factions within the MQM and emergence of traitors who work
for the establishment.
It further said that the
unending genocide of the Muhajirs is only because of the he traitors emerged
from ranks and files of the MQM as to these traitors have been heavily paid by
the establishment. The Muhajirs should hold the traitors accountable.