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Thirteen Thousand Homes

What the Capital Development Authority calls encroachment, half a million people call home.

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Apr 19, 2026
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The Capital Development Authority has spent six months dismantling a settlement older than Islamabad itself. Ninety-five percent of displaced families will receive no compensation. Twenty-five kilometres away, the Punjab government is flooding farming villages to build a dam for a city that is simultaneously clearing its poor for a smart-city skyline mo…

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