Karachi authorities beef up anti-encroachment drive

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Karachi authorities have demolished well over 40 shops while carrying out an anti encroachment operation at MA Jinnah Road here on tuesday.

From the very start of the drive shop owners started protesting the move, saying they have been working there since the past 10 to 15 years. But a heavy contingent of the police was present at the site that stopped the protesters from fighting back.

According to officials of the anti-encroachment cell, the shops were constructed on the land owned by Karachi Metropolitan Corporation. Therefore, they added, the KMC authorities were carrying out the drive against illegal construction on their land over court orders.

The operation was under way near Mir Muhammad Ground, where over 100 shops have been planned to be bulldozed.