KARACHI:Thousands of people on the platform of Action Committee staged a sit-in and held demonstration in Karachi on Sunday against Bahria Town during which hundreds of angry people attacked Bahria Town premises, damaged its gate, torched several shops, offices, vehicles, a car showroom and a fast food hotel. However, action committee clarified that their activists did not attack the properties and it was a conspiracy to defame them and disperse protest.
The activists of Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party, Sindh United Party, Qaumi Awami Tehreek, Jeay Sindh Mahaaz, Awami Jamhoori Party, Awami Workers Party and other nationalist and social parties besided people of Karachi staged sit-in and held demonstration demanding an abolition of the project. The leaders said that the project was aimed at converting people of Sindh into minority, which should be abolished as soon as possible. They vowed to continue the protest movement against the anti-Sindh project till its logical end.
However, security forces later took action and conducted shelling following which protesters dispersed and sit-in was ended. Earlier, the Action Committee leaders Qadir Magsi and others leading caravans reached the site of the sit-in. Extraordinary security arrangements were made in front of Bahria Town on the occasion and all roads leading to Bahria Town cordoned off.
Police stopped caravans coming to Bahria Town in various areas of Sindh, including Malir, Badin and Jamshoro. The Sindh Action Committee directed the workers to stage sit-ins on the roads in case, they are stopped by police. STP chief Dr Qadir Magsi said that the convoys were being stopped on the roads in Sindh in the pretext of SOPs, which was an unjustified act.
The Bahria Town administration is facing resistance from the residents of the lands in Gadap and Kathore who are not ready to surrender what they claim to be their ancestral lands. Recently, a man had sustained bullet wounds when armed guards of Bahria Town private security firm clashed with villagers in Kathore.