{"id":15678,"date":"2015-08-28T17:12:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=15678"},"modified":"2017-12-11T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T07:30:39","slug":"sc-restraint-a-ray-of-hope-for-residents-of-katchi-abadis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-restraint-a-ray-of-hope-for-residents-of-katchi-abadis.html","title":{"rendered":"SC Restraint: A Ray of Hope for Residents of Katchi Abadis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/court-hammer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15679\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/court-hammer.jpg\" alt=\"court-hammer\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/court-hammer.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/court-hammer-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/court-hammer-148x90.jpg 148w, https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/court-hammer-537x322.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court of Pakistan has finally issued a restraining order to the Capital Development Authority (CDA), staying action against the slums around Islamabad until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few days, a number of social activists used social media to highlight the plight of residents of <em>katchi abadis<\/em> in the suburbs of the capital and petition was subsequently filed with Supreme Court of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The SC order has restrained CDA from taking any action \u2013 including razing \u2013 against the slums in Sector I-11 until August 31, the day of next hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The order also asked the CDA, Islamabad chief commissioner, federal government and the Islamabad inspector general of police to present a detailed report addressing all issues raised by the petitioners.<\/p>\n<p>The SC ordered the respondents to explain details of why the slums needed to be removed, including their demographics, numbers, pictures as well as policies to fulfill the obligation of the authorities to assure shelter for the displaced citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the verdict called for responses from all provincial government to the question of providing housing to their citizens.<\/p>\n<p>While the administrative authorities in Islamabad have been restricted to go ahead with forceful evictions until next Monday, it looks like the slum dwellers have finally found a glimmer of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Pakistan has finally issued a restraining order to the Capital Development Authority (CDA), staying action against the slums around Islamabad until Monday. In the past few days, a number of social activists used social media to highlight the plight of residents of katchi abadis in the suburbs of the capital and petition was subsequently filed with Supreme Court of Pakistan. The SC order has restrained CDA from taking any action \u2013 including razing \u2013 against the slums in Sector I-11 until August 31, the day of next hearing. The order also asked the CDA, Islamabad chief commissioner, federal government and the Islamabad inspector general of police to present a detailed report addressing all issues raised by the petitioners. The SC ordered the respondents to explain details of why the slums needed to be removed, including their demographics, numbers, pictures as well as policies to fulfill the obligation of the authorities to assure shelter for the displaced citizens. Furthermore, the verdict called for responses from all provincial government to the question of providing housing to their citizens. While the administrative authorities in Islamabad have been restricted to go ahead with forceful evictions until next Monday, it looks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":15679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[319,1898],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-cda","8":"tag-restraining-order-on-evictions"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC Restraint: A Ray of Hope for Residents of Katchi Abadis - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court of Pakistan has finally issued a restraining order to the Capital Development Authority (CDA), staying action against the slums around\" \/>\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\/sc-restraint-a-ray-of-hope-for-residents-of-katchi-abadis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC Restraint: A Ray of Hope for Residents of Katchi Abadis - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme Court of Pakistan has finally issued a restraining order to the Capital Development Authority (CDA), staying action against the slums around\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-restraint-a-ray-of-hope-for-residents-of-katchi-abadis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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