Citizens protest against what is being built ‘in secret’ at Karachi's Nehr-i-Khayam

KARACHI: Environmentalists and residents from across the city, including Clifton Block 5 Residents Association, Clifton Defence Com­munity (CDC) and Karachi Resi­dents’ Community (District South), gathered at the construction site of Nehr-i-Khayam on Sunday to protest the building of a commercial belt there. Standing firm against the backdrop of a big yellow digger machine hard at work and a reversing concrete mixer truck, the protesters held up placards with messages such as ‘Violation of Supreme Court orders’, ‘No food street on Nehr-i-Khayam’, ‘What are you building? Share the plan…