KARACHI, March 29: The city government in its ongoing campaign against encroachments, on Wednesday, retrieved a number of roads, footpaths, a park and including KWSB land from the clutches of the land mafia in different towns.

Besides, a large number of pushcarts and those doing businesses on footpaths were also removed from Liaquatabad, Saddar and Malir Town’s Liaquat Market.

A spokesman for the city government said the roads were heavily encroached upon but had now been retrieved from encroachers. These included Landhi Town’s Korangi No 6 Road, a 200-feet wide road of New Karachi Town, which leads to the airport and Malir, another major road of New Karachi Town (4300 Road) from where heavy volume of traffic proceeds towards Gulshan-i-Maymar and graveyard, and the 9000 Road that leads to the industrial area.

All these roads will now be reconstructed to facilitate motorists, the spokesman said.

He said structures of 150 shops, which had been illegally raised on Korangi No 6 Road and adjacent footpaths had been demolished while over 400 huts which were unlawfully set up on the land reserved for a park all along the boundary wall of a girls college in Korangi No 3½, had also been removed.

In addition, the city government’s anti-encroachment staff also removed encroachments from over the KWSB Syphon-90 from where three major pipelines are passing, he added.