KARACHI: Policy to check pollution urged

Published September 17, 2008

KARACHI, Sept 16: The Sindh Minister for Human Rights, Nadia Khan Gabol, urged the environment and transport departments and the traffic police to jointly evolve a comprehensive policy to combat environmental pollution.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, she said that smoke-emitting vehicles were the major sources of environmental pollution. Polluted environment, she said, not only affected the common citizens but also the traffic police personnel deployed all across the city.

The minister urged all the stakeholders to work jointly against pollution. Arrangements should be made to reduce pollution, she said.

She was of the view that pollution gave rise various disease like asthma, allergy and lungs diseases. The minister said that the Sindh transport and traffic police departments should make concerted efforts to check environmental pollution.—PPI

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