Still Displaced.

The restoration of the Orangi Nullah project began a year ago with mass demolitions that resulted in the loss of life as well as the displacement of countless families who resided there. No protective measures were taken or offered, prompting the Supreme Court to pass an order demanding the government to relocate and rehouse the affected within two years. Here we are now, people are still homeless and promises of housing schemes have been left unfulfilled.

Bodies like the Karachi Bachao Tehreek (KBT) and Orangi Mutasireen Committee (OMC) have done well in highlighting the plight of the affected people. They put forth facts of the way the project was carried out; demolitions taking place without proper procedures, lack of safety arrangements, and complete apathy for the people who were forced out of their homes. Even if they were living on encroached land, surely the government must pay them respect as fellow human beings and citizens of the country. Ensuring that no harm was done was the least that could have been achieved but alas.

Now...