Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that he will save the Katchi Abadis across Sindh, and will give property rights to the residents there. He added that PPP has never opposed giving plots to any judge, bureaucrat, or anyone else, hopefully, no one will object to the poor getting their due share either.
Addressing an initial leasing ceremony for 150 people under a scheme to give property rights to residents of more than 8,000 houses in 19 mahallas of Larkana, Chairman PPP said that the first thing the incumbent Prime Minister had done after being elected was to regularize his Bani Gala home for a small fee. We hoped that when the Prime Minister was regularizing his house, the same policy would be applied to the slums across the country.
“Instead, one slum after another was demolished,” said Chairman PPP. “And it seemed as if all the forces of the country were united in snatching away roofs from atop the heads of the poor.”
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari further said that it is tragic that we face difficulties in regularizing the population of Gujjar Nala, but there is no obstacle in the regularization of Bani Gala.
“There are difficulties in regularizing the slums of Orangi Town, but Bahria Town is regularized,” said Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
Chairman PPP said that he was proud of the people of Larkana who had formed organizations to save their homes and started a movement. Today, that movement has been successful. He said that a new journey begins today. Ownership rights will be given to slum dwellers across Sindh, where they have been living for forty years. He further said that the task of rescuing the slums will be intensified from February. We will do our best to give the poor people their rights.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that this is the difference of perception and opinion as to what kind of Pakistan you want to see. A Pakistan where a common man, a job seeker, a middle-class man, invests the savings of his whole life in projects like Nasla Tower. There are many other such oppressive examples. Or a Pakistan that is the Pakistan of Quaid-e-Awam and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, where every man from every class gets his due share.
“If the people support us, we will create a Pakistan where everyone is provided with the rights they deserve,” said Chairman PPP. “The journey that has started today from the slums of Larkana will start in the whole of Sindh, including Karachi.” He said that after the next general election, we will give property rights to the citizens living in slums all over Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari handed over lease certificates to 150 people in the first phase of the project to give property rights to the slum dwellers of Larkana.
Present on the occasion were Special Assistant to Chief Minister Sindh Liaquat Ali Askani, Members of Assembly and other leaders.
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