He was accompanied by the city council parliamentary leader Aslam Shah Afridi, chairman city council’s land committee Syed Arshad Hassan, senior director anti encroachments Bashir Siddiqui and other officers.
Talking to media representatives on this occasion, Mayor Karachi said the operation against encroachments has begun and on Tuesday five marriage lawns, a mixture plant and other constructions were demolished with the help of heavy machinery, all such encroachments will be removed under the orders of the Supreme Court.
He said the sports complex will be made better by providing more facilities for sports training and sports competitions so that young sportsmen and students could avail best training facility inside the complex.
Akhtar said this sports complex had been using for commercial purposes since last twenty years under the patronage of land mafia, however all such encroachments are being removed and after this the complex will be renovated and used only for sports activities and sports competitions.
Mayor said the trees and grass lawns in the complex will be protected in this operation against encroachments and the parks will be made even greener and beautiful.
He said this sports complex has since its inception offered facilities for various sports discipline including swimming, tennis, hockey, roller hockey, squash, indoor games so that young and emerging talent could further polish its talent by training on regular basis and perform at the higher levels.
He said in all big cities parks and playgrounds held much importance due to their effectiveness for healthy and creative activities and to improve the environmental conditions which is now considered an important issue in the metropolitan cities of the world.
He said Karachi suffered a lot due to land grabbing and encroachments in each and every nook of the city, however now no one will be allowed to take the land that has been allocated for parks and playgrounds and if still any encroachments are made, these will be demolished immediately.