KARACHI: Drive against landgrabbers

Published December 9, 2005

KARACHI, Dec 8: The town municipal administration of Landhi on Thursday set Dec 12 as the deadline for encroachers to voluntarily remove their encroachments. After the expiry of the deadline a big operation against them would be launched. Landhi Town Nazim Mohammad Ismail Qureshi in this regard visited various areas of the town and said that those who failed to follow the orders till Dec 12 would have to face both fines and imprisonment according to the rules and regulations.—PPI

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