Overview
- Commissioner Syed Hassan Naqvi chaired a review and ordered deputy commissioners to continue and step up anti‑encroachment operations across districts, citing the need to ease traffic and restore public space.
- A large SITE operation led by Assistant Commissioner Muhammad Yousuf demolished an illegal timber market under a bridge and dismantled unauthorized structures on government land.
- Officials cleared a systematically run illegal parking area and removed about 50 to 80 illegally parked private and commercial vehicles that were blocking traffic.
- North Nazimabad teams confiscated tables and chairs from roadside eateries that had occupied footpaths, and Bin Qasim inspectors sealed one LPG outlet and fined shopkeepers Rs10,000 for price violations.
- The drives are conducted jointly by the Anti‑Encroachment Force, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and local police, and officials say sustained legal follow‑up will be used to try to keep roads clear and improve civic services.