SC order to remove encroachments in Karachi reignites fear of mass displacement

• Victims of earlier drives accuse municipal staff of taking bribes to return their seized goods
• Authorities must take sufferings of ordinary people into account before taking ‘reckless decision’, opines lawyer

KARACHI: While the Supreme Court has ordered the authorities to remove within three days encroachments from all roads and footpaths, people feared that civic authorities would again allegedly misuse the apex court’s directives to uproot thousands of people earning their livelihoods...