KARACHI – Supreme Court of Pakistan Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday said that no compromise will be made on air and water pollution as it was the matter of people’s lives.
The Chief Justice passed the remark while hearing a case regarding the provision of clean water to people of Sindh filed by Advocate Shahab Usto, at Karachi Registry of the apex court.
The three-member bench also summoned former city nazim Mustafa Kamal and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on December 5 and 6 respectively.
He further said that high officers will be summoned in the case if necessary.
He added that the judiciary should take up the matter when the government failed to perform its duties.
The CJP observed that no one can survive without water and air as these two are the biggest blessing.
He said that establishment of different factories was harming the people in Punjab and Sindh, adding that air pollution causing a rise of dangerous diseases including cancer.
Advocate Shahab Usto argued that people in 29 districts across Sindh are forced to drink polluted water.
He added “Eighty percent water in Karachi, 85% in Hyderabad, 88% in Larkana and 78 % in Shikarpur is contaminated,” reported Geo News.
Water Mixed with Human Waste On July 16, the one-man judicial commission, headed by Sindh High Court’s Chief Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro, was informed by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) that the people were being suppleid water mixed with human waste.