It comes after the Awami Workers Party (AWP) submitted a petition to the Court in August, challenging the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) plans to demolish the areas across the Pakistani capital.
In a press conference at the time, the AWP “called for an immediate halt to the ongoing eviction drive of the CDA in Islamabad, an immediate resettlement of all the former residents of the demolished I-11 katchi abadi [slum] and demanded that those who carried out the violent, brutal and unlawful operation in I-11 be brought to justice”.
Al Jazeera reported the court issued the stay order against the plans last week and ordered the CDA, which has been targeting illegal slums in the capital since 2014, to justify its next planned demolition in writing.
Plans to demolish Christian-majority slums in Islamabad put on hold
14 December 2015
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Plans to destroy a slum in Islamabad, which is largely occupied by Christians, have been postponed by the Supreme Court.
