KARACHI: Mayor Murtaza Wahab on Monday handed over the documents of plots to Baldia Town’s Sector 13 residents who had lost their properties in an anti-encroachment drive.

“Owners of more than 400 houses demolished in Baldia Town’s Sector 13 have been given 166 plots measuring 80 yards each in the first phase today while in the second phase, the alternative plots will be given to more allottees,” he said while addressing a ceremony in Baldia Town.

“The Pakistan People’s Party’s philosophy is: the service without discrimination. These plots were allotted 30 years ago and today Bilawal Bhutto’s PPP solved this problem and gave land to the affectees,” he said.

The mayor said the PPP’s local government had built a sports complex in Kakri Ground, and grounds in Gizri, Ibrahim Hyderi and Landhi, and would soon inaugurate a football ground and cricket stadium in the Kalaboard area of Malir.

“I also promise the people of Baldia Town that they would soon get a football ground in their area,” he added.

Published in Dawn, January 2nd, 2024

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