housing and for whom the development of the OPP was undertaken. She focuses special criticism on the Karachi Port Trust, saying that the development being effected by them was meant to cater exclusively to the elite, thus nurturing the monster of elitism and widening the rich-poor gap.
The third -- and final -- part of the programme was a panel discussion moderated by Rahman’s sister Aquila Ismail, with writer Ajmal Kamal, journalist Anwar Sen Roy, novelist Asad Muhammad Khan and Afzaal Ahmed Khan as discussants.
Roy said that while everybody had a right to work his own way, his work would always come to the fore for people to judge.
Afzaal Ahmed Khan, originally from the erstwhile East Pakistan but who has also lived for a long time in Beirut, Lebanon, said Karachi’s main problem was the acute shortage of gardens.
Gardens, he said, were essential for the recreation of the citizenry and had a very soothing effect on a person’s nerves and temperament. Unfortunately, he said, the few gardens remaining in Karachi were also disappearing, being devoured by the builders’ mafia to construct apartment blocks and shopping plazas.
Aquila Ismail disclosed that they had approached the higher judiciary to solve the riddle of her sister’s murder and quickly apprehend the criminals. She said the very next day after the murder, police sources told them that Rahman’s killer had been shot in an encounter with the police.
She was of the view that this killing of an innocent person was just a cover-up by the police to close the case. She said they were sure that this was all very far from the truth and there was something really sinister, while police perhaps were trying to protect the criminals.
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