LARKANA:Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that he will save the Katchi Abadis across Sindh and give ownership rights to the residents there.

Addressing a ceremony to lease 150 people initially under a plan to give the residents of more than 8,000 Katchi Abadi residents of Larkana’s 19 Muhallas, Bilawal said that the first thing the current Prime Minister did after being elected, he regularized his Bani Gala home by paying a nominal fee. We hoped that when the Prime Minister was regularizing his house by paying a nominal fee, the same would be the policy for the rest of the population across the country. He said that regrettably, one after another the slum dwellers began to collapse and it seemed as if all the forces of the country were united to take the shadow of the roof from the head of the poor.

Chairman Bilawal said that it is sad that we face difficulties in regularizing the Gujar Nala and Nasla Tower residents, but there was no difficulty in regulating Bani Gala. There are difficulties in regularizing the Orangi Town slum populations, but Bahria Town is regulated, Bilawal said. The PPP chairman said he was proud of the people of Larkana, who established organizations to save their homes, launched a movement and today the movement has succeeded. Today a new journey is about to begin, he added.

Throughout Sindh, Bilawal announced, where people have been living for forty years, residents of these Katchi Abadis will be given ownership rights. The task of saving the Katchi population will accelerate from February, he added. Bilawal said we will make every effort to give the poor people their rights. The PPP Chairman said that there is a difference of opinion about how you want to see Pakistan.

An example of Pakistan where an ordinary person, a jobber has invested his whole life’s earnings, and an example of Nasla Tower is before you, he said, adding there are many oppressive examples. He said if you want to see Quaid-e-Azam’s Pakistan or martyred Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan, where every person and class gets their rights.

Bilawal said let the people support us, we will create a Pakistan where everyone gets their own rights. The journey, which began today with the Katchi Abadi (population) of Larkana, will begin in Sindh, including Karachi. By coming to the government after the next general election, we will give ownership rights to the citizens living in the Katchi Abadis all over Pakistan.

Meanwhile, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari handed over the lease certificates to 150 people in the first phase of the project to give ownership rights to the residents of the Katchi Abadi residents of Larkana. Special Assistant to the Chief Minister Sindh Liaquat Ali Asakani, members of the national and provincial assemblies and other leaders were also present on the occasion.