Karachi 'Fix it' campaigner booked for littering outside CM House
KARACHI: Campaigner Alamgir Khan, whose ‘Fix it’ campaign to cover unsealed manholes in the metropolis gained media attention, was arrested on Thursday by police as he attempted to create a “symbolic garbage dump” outside the Sindh Chief Minister House.
Khan was on board a tractor and moving along the PIDC traffic intersection towards the Red Zone, where several state building including Chief Minister House are located, when police personnel took him and his driver, Saifullah into custody.
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“I have a brought this dustbin, I will put garbage in it,” Khan said, moments before he was whisked away in a police mobile."I am doing this so that they [the Sindh government] can also smell the odour, and they also fall sick from the poor hygiene that the rest of us are suffering.”
Later in the afternoon, a First Information Report (FIR) No. 27/2016 was registered against Khan at the Civil Lines police station for ‘disrupting traffic’ and ‘littering outside the CM House’ under section 341 of the Pakistan Penal Code.