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Shehri Success Stories
A small sampling of our efforts in the public interest includes:

  • As a result of advocacy and public interest litigation demolition of Glass Towers illegal encroachment on the notified road-widening of Clifton Road. This action saved the road from being constricted.
  • As a result of advocacy and public interest litigation saving of 480-acre Gutter Baghicha Park on Manghopir Road. This is the largest open recreational space in a low income congested area of approximately one million inhabitants and is the lungs of Lyari.
  • As a result of advocacy and public interest litigation demolition of apartment structure Costa Livina in amenity Bagh-e-Ibne Qasim, Clifton. This action stopped similar illegal allotments. CDGK has now developed the park.
  • As a result of active advocacy stopping commercialization and sale of 11 KTC & 15 SRTC bus-depot plots in Karachi and Sindh. Today these plots are to be used by the CDGK for intercity bus terminals and other related activity hereby removing the illegal bus terminals from the roads of Karachi.
  • As a result of active advocacy saving of a 5-acre park in North Karachi. Sixty thousand people of the area can now access this open space.
  • As a result of active advocacy establishment of the ‘Oversee Committee’ of the KBCA and a ‘Public Information Counter’
  • As a result of active advocacy saving of 62-acre Kidney Hill in Karachi Cooperative Housing Societies Union inclusive of 18 acre notified KWSB installations.
  • Award of Indus Conservation Award by the Technical Committee of the Indus Partnership on ‘best performance’ among all funded projects for Shehri’s project on GIS Mapping of Karachi Coast and habitat management analysis of the green turtle nesting habitat at Sandspit/Hawksbay beach, Karachi
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. - Thomas Carlyle