Karachi: The Sindh High Court has given Sindh government a deadline of six weeks to clear garbage from railways tracks and surrounding lands in Karachi, a news source reported.
The high court also directed the Division Superintendent of Pakistan Railways and the Chief Executive Officer of the Cantonment Board Clifton to ensure that garbage is no longer dumped on the tracks and its surrounding land.
At the end of the six weeks, the two-member bench comprising Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi and Justice Mahmood A Khan will collect reports from the respondents with an update of the cleaning process and confirming the removal of garbage from their respective areas.
The court was hearing a petition by the environmentalist Abdul Hamid Dagia. Dagia had highlighted environmental and health hazards caused due to garbage dumping near populated areas in the petition.
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