Karachi Township
Pakistan: APC terms Bahria Town Karachi as 'illegal'
Islamabad: An All Parties Conference (APC) on Sunday declared Bahria Town Karachi (BTK) of Pakistan as "illegal and unconstitutional" and "a modern form of colonisation", media reports said.
The APC also asked the land to be returned to the original status.
Held at the outskirts of Karachi's Gadap Town in Hadi Bux Gabol Goth on the call of the Indigenous Rights Alliance and attended by the PML-N and nationalist parties from Sindh and Balochistan, the APC resolution was quoted as saying by Dawn News: "BTK had illegally occupied lands and it’s construction work should be stopped."
“We consider it as a form of colonialism in the 21st century which is worse than the colonialism of the 18th century,” it added. “We believe that BTK is part of [the] invasion of global capitalism."
During the meeting, the participants even described both the ruling PTI government in the Centre and the PPP government in Sindh as BTK's "facilitators".
The speakers alleged the PPP government in particular had been exposed as "anti-Sindh" by allowing and initiating the Defence Housing Authority City, Zulfiqarabad and Thar coal projects.
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