{"id":6162,"date":"2025-05-05T03:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2025-05-05T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:04:18","slug":"kpt-says-drive-targeted-at-illegal-occupants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=6162","title":{"rendered":"KPT says drive targeted at illegal occupants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has said that the recent notices served for the reclamation of encroached land were targeted only at illegal occupants and land mafias operating within KPT&#8217;s designated areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to KPT, the coastal strip extending from KMC Pillar 1 to Khayaban-e-Khalid in Hawke&#8217;s Bay was originally allotted to the Trust by the government of India in 1875.<\/p>\n<p>However, over the years, land mafias illegally occupied portions of this land and began selling plots at low prices, misleading unsuspecting buyers.<\/p>\n<p>The KPT clarified that these notices are not directed at those who hold legitimate ownership rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Trust acknowledged the 1993 Gothabad Scheme introduced by then-prime minister Benazir Bhutto, which aimed to provide proprietary rights to fishermen families who had resided for generations in the Kakapir Baba and Bhat Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Under this initiative, the Sindh government issued official ownership documents to these communities.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has said that the recent notices served for the reclamation of encroached land were targeted only at illegal occupants and land mafias operating within KPT&#8217;s designated areas. According to KPT, the coastal strip extending from KMC Pillar 1 to Khayaban-e-Khalid in Hawke&#8217;s Bay was originally allotted to the Trust by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}