KARACHI: Heavy machinery has entered Karachi’s Azizabad area to demolish all the offices around MQM headquarters Nine Zero.
According to CityNews21, heavy loaders and machinery has entered to demolish the offices around Nine Zero, while a heavy contingent of police, Rangers and other law enforcing agencies are also present on the occasion.
The roads heading towards Azizabad have been blocked.
Earlier, local authorities in Karachi’s Azizabad area demolished the boundary walls of the Lal Qila Ground, a park where the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) used to hold its party gatherings.
The top district official, however, had said he neither ordered the demolition nor knew who was behind it.
The operation was carried out on the night between Saturday and Sunday when officials with a heavy contingent of security personnel arrived at the park in Azizabad’s block-8.
The journalists were stopped from covering the demolition operation.
TV footage taken on Sunday morning showed concrete walls and other structures reduced to rubble across the park.
The MQM headquarters of Nine Zero is next to the Lal Qila Ground. Party leader Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui’s residence also faces the park.
Reports said the security personnel were accompanied by officials from the district administration.
However, the Central District Commissioner said he neither ordered the operation nor he knows who was behind it. The district commissioner said the operation must have been carried out by the police or other law enforcement agencies.
Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) had also expressed surprise over the demolition.
