Staff Reporter The Sindh High Court has directed the Nazir of the court to handover all accounts, books, assets and responsibilities of the Young Men’s Christian Association’s (YMCA) Karachi wing to its parent body, the YMCA Asia, following an anti-corruption inquiry report which said two rival groups, namely the YMCA Karachi and the YMCA Company, of the global organisation were involved in corrupt practices and found to have acted against the interest of the association. The order came on petitions filed by private individuals for granting of injunctions in their favour to run the management and other affairs of the YMCA. The SHC’s division bench, comprising Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi and Justice Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan, observed that properties of the YMCA had been leased out about a century ago in the name of Pakistani arm of the international YMCA operating globally and the letter’s operations were running as per usual business for a long time. The court observed that the creation of the YMCA Karachi under a confusingly and deceptively similar name under the Ordinance of 1961 crated a lever to illegitimately interfere with and scoop out the assets and properties of this international association that the YMCA society had become defunct upon promulgation of the Ordinance. The court said it seemed that all efforts to hold elections of the YMCA society since 2002 had failed miserably and the Nazir of the court had been holding the charge of the affairs of YMCA for over 15 years had tried to hold elections twice; however.
