Press Release: Lahore: 6 August,2015 The Awami Workers Party condemns the demolition of the I-11 katchi basti through bulldozers which has made 10000 people homeless. The settlement was at least 35 years old and inhabited by Pakistani citizens. Instead of providing these citizens with alternate accomodation, the government conducted a brutal operation against its working…
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Supreme Court Petition Challenging Katchi Abadi Demolitions
Full text of the petition submitted to the Supreme Court of Pakistan by the Awami Workers Party and katchi abadi residents challenging the CDA’s campaign of katchi abadi demolitions in Islamabad. (For background, read about the AWP’s press conference on the issue)
AWP calls for immediate halt to eviction and demands resettlement for kachiabadi residents
PR: Islamabad, 2nd August, 2015: The Awami Workers Party called for an immediate halt to the ongoing eviction drive of the CDA in Islamabad, an immediate resettlement of all the former residents of the demolished I-11 katchi abadi and demanded that those who carried out the violent, brutal and unlawful operation in I-11 be brought…