13 Powerful Pictures From the Forced Evictions in Islamabad

By Ali Ahsan | 2 Aug, 2015

1. A teenage boy piles as much as he can before his family is evicted.


Source: a-revolt

2. A police-man firing a smoke canister to disperse protestors.


Source: a-revolt

3. Bulldozers flatten homes of slum dwellers. Meanwhile, the inhabitants have no other place to go.


Source: Dawn

 

4. Children protest against authorities as they prepare to demolish the homes in I-11.


Source: Tribune

 

5. Children helplessly standby in tears as their homes are demolished by the CDA.


Source: Dawn

 

6. Police officials force slum dwellers out of their homes.


Source: Dawn

 

7. Women weep in protest as they are made to watch their homes being flattened.


Source: Dawn

 

8. A police officer yells at a resistant little boy.

 

9. A woman refusing to leave her home is lifted from the ceiling of her home to be carried away.


Source: Dawn

 

10. An elderly man is carried away by officials as he protests against the demolitions.


Source: PBS

 

11. A man standing  by what remains of his house.

 

12. Smoke fills the sky in the aftermath of police force to disperse protestors.

 

13. Citizens of Islamabad protest against the evictions of the slum dwellers. 


Source: Daily Times

 

Regardless of the fact that the slum dwellers of Islamabad had illegally built their homes, the government should have done a better job of relocating them. With no homes, where will the now homeless people of Islamabad go?

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