Evictees of slum near Islamabad’s diplomatic quarter claim abandonment as city cites security, illegal settlement

ISLAMABAD: Muzaffar Hussain Shah bends down, picks up a brick from the rubble and cleans it with a hammer. Until a few weeks ago, the brick had been part of a home where Shah had lived for nearly five decades, since his birth. The house in an informal settlement in Islamabad, which came to be known as Muslim Colony, was demolished in an anti-encroachment drive. Shah said he has spent past three weeks sleeping under the open sky and has been collecting the last remaining bricks to get by for a few more days.

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