The Jamaat-e-Islami has challenged the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s City Council resolution for the awarding of three acres to a private organisation for the construction of a museum at the Beach View Park.
Filing a petition with the Sindh High Court (SHC), the JI’s opposition leader in City Council Saifuddin Advocate and another council member Taimoor Ahmed said that on March 12 the City Council had passed a defective resolution to award approximately three acres of Beach View Park land to the Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP), a private organisation, for the construction of a museum.
The petitioners said the Beach View Park is a designated public open space and recreational park under the Master Plan and applicable statutory frameworks, and is subject to the protection of several binding judgments of the superior courts. They said the resolution was passed in manifestly illegal and dubious manner as the agenda for agenda item No. 13 pertaining specifically to the Beach View Park resolution was deliberately not issued or circulated to the members of the City Council prior to the meeting.
They said members of the council were reportedly restricted and prevented from speaking. They also said the impugned resolution was then rushed through the council and declared as passed within mere seconds.
