KARACHI: The Sindh government should file a review petition in the Supreme Court regarding a Supreme Court order to demolish more than 500 commercial buildings constructed on residential plots, said Karachi mayor Waseem Akhtar on Saturday.&The buildings marked in the order have much been build on encroached land,& clarified Akhtar in a press conference on Saturday.No legal building or wedding corridor would be demolished, he said, and requested the provincial government to approach the apex court.Federal IT minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui demanded a judicial commission to resolve the issue.On January 22, the Supreme Court barred the use of residential houses for commercial purposes."Wedding corridors, shopping malls and plazas shall much be constructed on residential plots," SC's Karachi registry ordered.Further, the court had ordered all encroachments across the metropolis should be instantly razed.
Meanwhile, marriage corridor owners took to the streets in Karachi against the court's order.They announced that all marriage corridors would be shut down in Karachi from Sunday.According to sources, more than 300 marriage corridors and other commercial buildings would be demolished in the first phase.Sindh Local Bodies Minister Saeed Ghani said that no building or corridor constructed legally would be demolished.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source.
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