![]() On April 22 a lease deed was signed between the KMC and AA Joyland. ![]() The name of the company was also changed from Zodiac Joyland to AA Joyland due to some internal affairs of the company, but Ibrahim Shamsi was still their managing director. Serious anomalies seem to have appeared in this agreement: not only was subleasing allowed but approval was also granted for food and merchandise outlets, exhibition centre and mini-cinema for 24 and a half years. On April 9, when PPP was still in power and Anzar Hussain Zaidi was the new KMC administrator, a fresh agreement was signed between the KMC and AA Joyland. Zaman was the administrator until April 4, 1996. The fifth clause of the agreement clearly restricts the developer from subleasing or assigning the project land or any part of it to anyone else. The agreement stated that 66 per cent of the area would remain an open space, while the remaining 34 per cent could be covered by building structures and machines, within which not more than five per cent could be used for commercial purposes like gift shops and snack bars. The developer was bound by the agreement to submit a detailed master plan and a detailed design of the proposed amusement park to the KMC within six months. The lease was granted on the condition that the land would be used for amenity purposes. On May 30 Zaman signed an agreement with Zodiac Joyland, which was granted the 52 acres facing Rashid Minhas Road for 25 years to develop an amusement park on the pattern of Disneyland. Hameed Haroon chaired the committee, and then KMC administrator Fahim Zaman was one of its members. The saga of Aladin Park started in 1995, when then Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chief minister Syed Abdullah Shah and chief secretary formed a committee to convert 52 acres of Safari Park into an amusement park. Amenity plots are reserved for parks, gardens, playgrounds, graveyards, hospitals, schools, colleges, libraries, community centres, mosques or other such purposes. The Sindh Disposal of Urban Land Ordinance states that no amenity plot is to be converted or used for any other purpose other than what it is intended for. Then the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) sprang into action and complied. On Jthe Supreme Court declared both of them illegal and ordered their demolition within two days. The park is currently known as Aladin Amusement Park, which had been housing Aladin Shopping Mall and Pavilion End Club. The News obtained copies of at least five agreements that allowed commercial activities on the premises of the park over the course of five years, and found out under whose watch those agreements were signed. ![]()
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