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Waseem Akhtar refuses to demolish legal marriage halls in Karachi
January 26, 2019
KARACHI, Jan 26 (INP): Mayor of Karachi Waseem Akhtar said on Saturday that the Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) will not raze the legal marriage halls in the metropolis.
“Sindh government should file a review petition on the Supreme Court’s verdict regarding demolishment of all wedding halls, shopping malls and plazas constructed on residential plots,” he said while addressing a news conference in Karachi.
Akhtar said that the buildings asked to be demolished did not encroach but in fact changed their land utility.
He said the KMC razed encroachments on nullah and footpath from the city, on the orders of the Apex Court, but cannot obey the orders of razing marriage halls of the city, until provision of alternate lands.
Earlier in the day, registering a protest over a notice issued by the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA), marriage hall owners had decided to shutdown marriage halls from Jan 27 onwards for an indefinite period of time.
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