Yet the squatter settlements of Karachi are often seen as ugly, illegal encroachments on government land instead of desperate final attempts at survival by a severely destitute people, let down by their government and failed by a hopelessly crooked system. The city government continues to demolish ‘Katchi Abadis’ to make way for new super highways and shopping malls, 
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