Let’s examine the biggest land grabbing cases in Karachi committed in the last 30 years:

In scheme 2 (North Nazimabad), scheme 16 (F. B. Area), Scheme 24 (Gulishan-e-Iqbal), Scheme 33 (Gulizer-e-Hijari) in particular and in other parts generally, the residential/ amenities etc, plots were allowed to convert into marriage halls/ lawns. In amounts to lost of Billions to the Government and public and benefits of billions to the owners (land grabbers).

Residential/ amenities plots were allowed to convert into others commercial uses and billions of lost to the government in the infra-structure and billions of benefits to the owners (land grabbers).

Allowing extra floors and covered areas to the hundreds of thousands of owners (land grabbers).

Allotment of land to the land grabbers on the water board conduit and on other utilities land.

The biggest single case of land grabbing is one that was committed in the recent past by MQM Minister of Housing in Musharraf era. MQM illegally allowed the ownership rights to the federal government employees residing on the Government flats/ apartments/ houses at federal capital area, Pakistan quarters etc. etc. The residents were given some money and their sale agreements were executed in favors of builders (land grabbers) by MQM. Then these land grabbers converted this government assets and land values Billions and Billions to commercial uses. The interested part of the story is that the approval of this was not even legally obtained by MQM Minister from the Musharraf’s cabinet. When this illegality was highlighted by the present government housing minister, and he promised to do the justice, but the Zardari government stopped to take any action in this matter. If, the above biggest land grabbing cases are investigated and the government losses recovered from these and land grabbers then the amount will be enough to run the present day deficits and foreign loans of Pakistan.

Further the officers / officials/ politicians’ involved in these land grabbing cases punished then we can stop the land grabbing in future and to provide justice to the nation.