A scandal erupts in Karachi over government plans to demolish a mosque they believe was built on an illegally acquired plot of land. On December 28, the country's Supreme Court ruled to liquidate the mosque and cemetery in the Tarik Road area, located on the land allocated for the park of culture and recreation, according to IA Krasnaya Vesna. The judge rejected a request from the administration of the Al-Fatah mosque to reconsider the case and ordered it to return the land allocated for the mosque to the Karachi city administration. The court also revoked the license issued by the city administration. According to the judge, the city government did not have the authority to issue a license to build a mosque on the land designated for Kidney Hill Park.

The decision of the court caused outrage among the parishioners. In particular, the general secretary of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party, Sind Rashid Mahmoud Sumro, threatened the authorities with extremely unpleasant consequences for them in the event of the demolition of the building. "Mr. Chief Justice ... Mr. Chief Minister, mosques are not orphans ... if you have the courage, show it and try to demolish the mosque with a bulldozer," Sumro said in a video that quickly spread across social networks. Until his death, he said, he would not allow "not a single brick of any mosque in Karachi to be demolished." “We will stop you on your way ... if the mosques are demolished, your offices will also be demolished,” Sumro warned.

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