Demolition of newspaper stalls across Karachi condemned
(WorldNews Pakistan)

The Markazi Anjuman Akhbar Faroshan has condemned the civic agencies for the demolition of stalls of newspaper hawkers in Karachi as part of their ongoing anti-encroachment campaign under way across the metropolis. The central association of newspaper hawkers and sellers held an emergency meeting on Saturday with Mohammad Iqbal Noon in chair. Representative leaders of newspaper hawkers said that some of the demolished newspaper stalls dated back to the pre-partition era. They said MM Usmani, then city commissioner, on the orders of then Pakistan president Ziaul Haq had issued written permission to these stalls that are now being demolished during the anti-encroachment drive. At that time a...