Naya Nazimabad

Naya Nazimabad (Urdu: نیا ناظم آباد ‎) is one of the neighbourhoods of Gadap Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. This neighborhood was built on the contaminated land by the business group with links to media and banking conglomerates and sold plots to the unsuspecting buyers who have reported higher cases of cancer.

Naya Nazimabad Project is yet to be completed.

An case was filed in the Sindh High Court (SHC) against the Naya Nazimabad residential scheme near Manghopir that has allegedly been launched despite a report claiming that the area has been used dumping ground for dangerous chemicals. These toxic Chemicals are hazardous substances which could harm human health and/or the environment.

A study commissioned on the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has found that the populations residing in Gadap Town and nearby areas such as Naya Nazimabad are prone to cancer-like diseases through Asbestos, a chemical can affect the population in neighborhood as it is air-borne.

There has been a coverup to downplay the contamination of Naya Nazimabad in Pakistan's media. Shunaid Qureshi, developer of Naya Nazimabad, CEO Al Abbas Sugar Mills and former Chairman of Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PASMA) was arrested in January 2014. Shunaid Qureshi is a son of Hum TV director Sultana Siddiqui, nephew of businessman Jahangir Siddiqui, brother-in-law of Television producer Momina Duraid and the cousin of actor Sheheryar Munawar Siddiqui. Jahangir Siddiqui son Ali Jahangir Siddiqui is married to daughter of Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman owner of Jang Group of Newspapers.

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