The demolition of Christian settlements in Islamabad and the government's silence. By Dr. Emanuel Adil Ghouri

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The federal capital city of Islamabad is a city that is called the mother of the unemployed. Educated and illiterate people from backward cities across the country come here in search of employment and then become residents here. Being the federal capital, there are wide job opportunities available here with the presence of various federal ministries, departments, and embassies. Although there are better employment facilities here, groceries and housing are extremely expensive, which is beyond the reach of the average worker. People who settle here from distant areas do not have the financial capacity to buy expensive land and build houses here.  Therefore, in order to obtain permanent residence here, these people try to settle in uninhabited areas that lack basic necessities of life such as electricity, water, gas, etc.  And in this effort, they spend their entire life's savings to build houses for themselves.

 These people live in these houses for generations, and no one asks them.  When these areas are developed and thousands of houses are built, suddenly the Capital Development Authority (CDA) comes to their senses and realizes that they are illegal occupants of government lands.

They should be immediately evicted from here and their possession should be reclaimed. Therefore, legal notices are immediately issued to these people to remove their constructions within a few days of receiving the notice, otherwise legal action will be taken against them.

Cases are also registered in the relevant police stations against those who resist these legal notices and the constructed houses are demolished with the help of heavy machinery. In fact, these houses don't collapse, they collapse the dreams of the people who built these houses with their lifetime savings. 

The question arises here: can these slums consisting of thousands of houses be built in a day? If it took many years to build them, then where was the Capital Development Authority sleeping when these slums were being built? 

Familiar circumstances indicate that CDA officials themselves are involved in their reconstruction, who take money and encourage people to build. It is important that before sending notices to those residents of slums, the CDA authorities hold accountable the black sheep hidden within them who have caused millions of rupees of loss to the poor residents for the sake of their few thousand rupees. Who are currently protesting on the streets of Islamabad amid the pouring rain and fasting. 

But no one is concerned about their plight. Some irrelevant and inexperienced self-styled leaders are advising the protesters and the nationalist leaders leading them to seek an order of confiscation from the court instead of protesting. My question to them is that if the order of confiscation is issued on two dates due to lack of proof of ownership and illegal occupation of government land, then will the CDA get legal justification and protection to demolish these houses?  Protest is the legal right and the best way for these people. It is a pity that the Christian MNAs and Senators who were selected in the National Assembly based on their identity do not seem to stand with them.  It is essential that the selected Christian MNAs and the Muslim MNAs from those constituencies who are sitting in the National Assembly thanks to their votes should feel their pain and suffering and present a bill in the National Assembly to give them ownership rights.

 Given their lack of interest, I commend British MP Jim Shannon, Chairman of the All-Parliamentary Parties Group for Minorities of Pakistan, for raising this issue in the UK and appealing to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Islamabad to resolve the issue.  The voices of these thousands of suffering Christians crying out for help have reached Britain, but they are not reaching the mute sea of ​​Christian members of the National Assembly sitting in Parliament House, a few kilometers awa

 

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"Trial of Pakistani Christian Nation" By Nazir S Bhatti

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