Hundreds of amenity plots in Karachi’s different areas including North Nazimabad, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Korangi, and Gulistan-e-Jauhar have been reduced to smaller plots through china cutting. A popular Bagh-e-Korangi once used to be a park for the public, but it has now been converted into a residential colony. The report said, “Rs230 billion being is being generated annually from Karachi’s citizens through extortion, smuggling of Iranian diesel, water supply and land-grabbing (china cutting in particular).”

1. Content:
CHINA CUTTING
URBAN SLUMS
LAND BANKING

2. CHINA CUTTING
• China cutting is basically an illegal way of carving out big
amenity plots, community centers, government plots, parks
or even cemeteries into smaller plots up to 100 yards or
below each and sale them.
• For instance, carving 100, 80 or 60 yards plots from a single
plot of 500 yards is called ‘china cutting.

3. URBAN SLUMS
• Urban slums are settlements, neighborhoods, or city
regions that cannot provide the basic living conditions
necessary for its inhabitants, or slum dwellers, to live in a
safe and healthy environment.

4. LAND BANKING
• Land banks are governmental or nonprofit things that
acquire distressed properties and then hold and manage
them for future use or resale. They typically acquire
properties through tax foreclosure, loan foreclosure, market
transfers, and/or donations. They maintain properties and
rehabilitate them through improvements, redevelopment,
or demolition