Karachi’s Mukka Chowk has been renamed as Liaquat Ali Khan chowk, according to an official notification issued on Monday.
A notification is issued which changed the name of the famous landmark being changed to Shaheed-e-Milat Liaquat Ali Khan Chowk after Pakistan’s first prime minister.
“The roundabout/junction, connecting Blocks 7, 8 and 9, Azizabad, Federal B Area, Karachi, known as Mukka Chowk, is named as Shaheed-i-Millat Liaquat Ali Khan Chowk, with immediate effect,” a notification issued by the city’s District Municipal Corporation read.
Earlier, posters and portraits of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief, Altaf Hussain, were removed by from the city’s famous Mukka Chowk in the stronghold of the party.
According to the police, unidentified people removed Altaf Hussain’s photos and portraits from the Chowk.The law-enforcers have no clue about the people are involved in damaging and removing MQM leader’s photos as well as MQM’s banners and posters.
A total of one hundred and ninety offices of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) have been sealed across Karachi after party leader Altaf Hussain’s anti-Pakistan speech promoting violence and unrest in the city.
The local administration sprang into action and demolished the party’s unit offices in Mosamiyat, Bhains Colony, Tariq Bin Zaiyad Society, Gulshan-i-Maymar and Shah Faisal Colony on the plea that they were set up illegally.
