Zardari for using Google Earth to check land encroachment

KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari Friday said that the government has initiated a drive against the encroachers and ordered a survey of all those areas which had been encroached upon, adding, all the encroached areas would be cleared of the encroachers. He suggested the authorities to use the Google Earth to check whether the Goths of Karachi were old and not encroached upon. "We welcome all those who are coming to Karachi, as it is their constitutional right, but not in the form of 'Qabza groups," he said. Speaking at the ceremony of 11th draw of Waseela-e-Haq and Smart Cards programmes of Benazir Income Support Programme here, he said, the government would fulfil the vision of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto of women empowerment. The president congratulated the gathering that the Parliament has unanimously passed the Benazir Income Support Programme bill as all the political parties, under the reconciliation policy and showing maturity has acknowledged that it should be continued in future as well as it is in the best national interest and benefits the downtrodden section of the society. "Government is committed to steer the country out of the present crisis and we all will together give a better Pakistan to our coming generations," the President said. He said that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has done his B.A Hons and got the same marks which Shaheed Benazir Bhutto had obtained. He said, "now we will start his training-the politics is in his genes”. "We will give the youth of Pakistan in his hand and he (Bilawal) will make progammes for the coming generations," he said. President Zardari said that presently the users of internet in the country are 20 million and in coming years they would reach to 200 million, adding, the present government wanted to provide internet service and a laptop to every home. He said that now the time has come that the son of a 'Hari' in Sindh should know the outflow of River Indus. The president said that he had raised the issue of water with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the UN summit two years back and he (Singh) had said that Pakistan can take the issue to the World Bank. He said that the government had hired an international arbitrator who would talk with India on the issue.