KARACHI, Nov 28: The Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town Nazim is in a fix over the setting up of two Bachat Bazaars in the same vicinity.

The Nazim, Abdul Wahab, has received a letter from SSP (East) in which he has been asked to cancel the no-objection certificate of a Bachat Bazaar at the KDA ground in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Block 6, in front of Aero Club, saying that the Bazaar might create a law and order situation.

According to sources, the Nazim is of the opinion that when another Bachat Bazaar being organized in the Aero Club, permission for which had been reportedly given by the Sindh Home Secretary, was not creating any law and order problem than how could the one being organized in the vicinity of Aero Club pose a law and order situation.

The Town Nazim in a letter to the City Nazim, Naimatullah Khan, stated that undue pressure was being exerted on the Town on behalf of the administration for the cancellation of the NOC of the Bachat Bazaar.

Seeking the Nazim’s opinion on the subject, the Town Nazim said that all the NOCs for organizing the Bachat Bazaars in different grounds of the Town had been issued in accordance with an official letter, whereby the Nazims had been empowered to give NOCs for such bazaars to help provide eatable items to citizens at reasonable rates during Ramazan.

About the permission/NOC, which the home department has reportedly given to the organizers of the Aero Club’s Bachat Bazaar, the Town Nazim stated that neither the home department is authorized to do so nor the department had been apprised about any such an NOC which the department had issued for an unlawful bazaar.