CDA demolishes Khanna police station in Islamabad anti-encroachment drive
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi promised a wider crackdown on encroachments as the capital's civic body tore down the police station, Hum News English reported.
The Capital Development Authority has demolished the Khanna police station in Islamabad in an anti-encroachment drive, with Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi promising a wider crackdown on encroachments, according to Hum News English.
Aaj News also reported the demolition, naming the CDA, Naqvi and the police station in its published headline. Neither report, as available, gave the size of the operation, the number of structures affected or the area of land involved.
According to Hum News English, Naqvi made the pledge as the police station was brought down. The reports did not say whether the building was in use at the time, whether its staff had been moved out beforehand, which agency designated it an encroachment, or whether a court had ordered its removal.
The CDA is the federal body that administers land and construction in the capital and has carried out repeated anti-encroachment operations in Islamabad over the years, often along main roads, storm-water channels and sector land. The reports did not specify what the promised crackdown would cover, when it would begin, or which parts of the city would be targeted.
Demolition of a police post is unusual in drives that more often target shops, boundary walls and other structures put up on state land. The reports did not explain the basis on which the Khanna station was treated as an encroachment, nor whether the Islamabad police were consulted before it was pulled down.
Neither report carried comment from the CDA, the Islamabad police or the Interior Ministry on the removal of the police station itself, and none said where policing duties for the area will be performed now.
Skardu Times could not independently verify the accounts, and no timeline for the announced crackdown has been made public in the reports available.
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