JI demands action against fraudulent allotments in cooperative societies

Karachi Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Monem Zafar Khan has demanded a comprehensive action against the mafia operating in cooperative societies across Karachi.

Addressing a press conference outside the office of the corporate department on Friday, Zafar demanded that the government retrieve the land from the mafia and provide the plots to genuine allottees. He said that unfortunately the registrar office had become the epicentre of problems instead of resolving the issues.

Highlighting Scheme 33 and 45, he said that plots in a majority of societies were fraudulently captured by the mafia with the help of fake files and documentation. He said that the government's cooperative department was fully hands in gloves with the mafia against Karachiites.

The protesters had been left with no option but to take to the streets, he lamented dubbing the entire scenario as deep injustice and oppression.

He said that the land grabbers mafia was enjoying the shelter by the ‘system’ of the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) government in Sindh.

He said that earlier, the people of Karachi were assured that the corrupt system would be eliminated. However, instead of uprooting the system, the head of the malicious network was installed in Islamabad, the JI leader alleged.

He shed light on the modus operandi of the system and told the media how administrators were appointed on political bases to capture the land and sell it off to fake allottees.

Following the intervention by a court of law, the government held fake elections to pave the way for the land grabbing mafia, he added.

Zafar held the PPP government responsible for the prevailing crises and urged the affected people to continue their agitation as resistance against the mafia was the only way forward.

He said the JI believed in peaceful democratic struggle and would continue its drive for the rights of Karachi and its residents. However, he said, the situation birthed several questions such as why the National Accountability Bureau or any other watchdog institution was not taking any action against the mafia.

He demanded the government take action against those responsible for grabbing plots in cooperative societies. He also warned the government of agitation and protest outside the CM House and the Governor House if the issue was not addressed.

He said the JI would take up the issue on all available forums. “We will also approach the judiciary,” he said.

He announced that the JI would take up all the matters concerning Karachi and Karachiites. He announced that a big protest demonstration would be held on Saturday outside the Sindh Assembly building to call for an increase in the development funds for Karachi.