{"id":14416,"date":"2015-06-16T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T13:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=14416"},"modified":"2017-12-11T12:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T07:30:48","slug":"land-mafia-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/land-mafia-in-trouble.html","title":{"rendered":"Land mafia in trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/land.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14420 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/land.png\" alt=\"land mafia\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/land.png 600w, https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/land-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/land-537x313.png 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rangers personnel reportedly paid a visit to the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA)\u2019s Head Office on Monday (June 15, 2015) and had a meeting with the SBCA chief to seek details on major real estate-related issues, such as illegal occupation of land, unlawful construction and encroachments.<\/p>\n<p>Televisions channels also highlighted the issue and aired clippings of the Rangers\u2019 visit to the SBCA\u2019s Head Office. According to a news source, the meeting was about the alleged involvement of the SBCA officials in land-grabbing and the actions taken by the authorities concerned in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>A senior official confirmed to reporters that the issue of \u2018China-cutting\u2019 was also discussed in the meeting. Land carved out illegally from amenity plots to use for residential purposes is colloquially referred to as China-cutting.<\/p>\n<p>SBCA sources also told reporters that Rangers officials would visit the SBCA Head Office once again for a follow-up, however, the agenda of this future meeting was not shared.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly, the paramilitary forces are tightening the noose around the land mafia and Monday\u2019s action was not a complete surprise, as the security forces had already hinted at extending their actions to all illegal activities in the city that are used to support gangs and their operations in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers also disclosed that the people involved in illegal activities were generating Rs 230 billion annually through land-grabbing, illegal water supply, extortion and smuggling of Iranian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Land-grabbing and China-cutting are the major issues of Karachi and now that the paramilitary forces are seeking to unveil the faces behind these illegal activities, we should expect to see major developments in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>The victims of land-grabbing and China-cutting must have felt a bit relieved after the action taken by Rangers. I leave this discussion open for our readers. Please share your views on the topic in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rangers personnel reportedly paid a visit to the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA)\u2019s Head Office on Monday (June 15, 2015) and had a meeting with the SBCA chief to seek details on major real estate-related issues, such as illegal occupation of land, unlawful construction and encroachments. Televisions channels also highlighted the issue and aired clippings of the Rangers\u2019 visit to the SBCA\u2019s Head Office. According to a news source, the meeting was about the alleged involvement of the SBCA officials in land-grabbing and the actions taken by the authorities concerned in this regard. A senior official confirmed to reporters that the issue of \u2018China-cutting\u2019 was also discussed in the meeting. Land carved out illegally from amenity plots to use for residential purposes is colloquially referred to as China-cutting. SBCA sources also told reporters that Rangers officials would visit the SBCA Head Office once again for a follow-up, however, the agenda of this future meeting was not shared. Seemingly, the paramilitary forces are tightening the noose around the land mafia and Monday\u2019s action was not a complete surprise, as the security forces had already hinted at extending their actions to all illegal activities in the city that are used to support&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1634,1635,816],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-china-cutting","8":"tag-land-grabbing","9":"tag-land-mafia"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Land mafia in trouble? - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rangers personnel reportedly paid a visit to the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA)\u2019s Head Office on Monday (June 15, 2015) and had a meeting with\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/land-mafia-in-trouble.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Land mafia in trouble? 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