Concerns shown over 2020 Plan

Based on these realities, the assembly rejected the plan and demanded the government to immediately call off it with an aim to benefit the elite and land mafia.  

Mohammad Ali Shah, chairperson Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), termed the plan anti-human and anti-environment and said that it would provide ways to land mafia to gulp 3,600 sq. km land in Gudap, Kimari and Bin Qasim areas.

The plan will bring mass displacement for the people, particularly for the fishermen, in the above-mentioned areas. It will be further extended up to 2030 (under the Federal Government's Vision 2030) to cover the city's region that includes part of the surrounding districts of Thatta, Jamshoro and Lasbella.

Under the plan, Water Front Development Project has been designed on 135-kilometre coastal belt of the Karachi. From now on in the Clifton and Gizri areas, the fishers are abandoned by the agencies to fish in the sea.

Ghulam Mustafa Baloch, SPO, said before devising any development plan, the state is responsible to assess the environmental impacts.

But the City government has not only ignored this aspect but has taken no suggestions from the local community, which is going to be affected badly. He said the money used for the plan would indebt the citizens of Karachi. In future poor people will pay the cost of it. Other speakers have also addressed on the occasion.