KARACHI Dec 04 (TNS): The Supreme Court summoned Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on December 6 over air and water pollution case in Karachi Registry of the apex court on Monday.
The three-member SC bench, which was hearing a case on provision of clean water for people of Sindh at Supreme Court’s Karachi Registry, also summoned former city nazim Mustafa Kamal in the case on December 5 (tomorrow).
During the court proceedings, Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nasir observed: “This is a matter of people’s lives it cannot be ignore. The CM will be asked about all the steps he has taken in this regard.”
CJP also remarked that the judiciary must intervene when government fails to fulfill its responsibilities.
“There will be no compromise on air and water pollution,” he remarked, adding “the high officials will also be summoned in the case if necessary.”
“Air and water are the two biggest blessing,” remarked CJP, adding that no one can live without them.
“It is compulsory that the government fulfill its responsibilities. Installation of different factories is affecting people in Sindh and Punajb,” observed CJP.
The court hearing was adjourned till December 5 (tomorrow).
On July 16, the judicial commission, formed by the apex court to probe the Sindh government’s alleged failure to provide clean drinking water and proper sanitation facilities to the citizens in the province, was informed that the people were being provided water mixed with human waste.
The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) told Justice Muhammad Iqbal Kalhoro, a Sindh High Court judge who is heading the one-man commission that water supplied to the people of the province for drinking was found contaminated with human waste.
It said 90 per cent of the drinking water provided to the residents of Karachi was not fit for consumption and could be hazardous to health.
The council said in a report that 88 per cent of water in Larkana was contaminated and contained 60 per cent of human waste, water in Hyderabad contained 42 per cent of human waste, Jamshoro 75 per cent, Tando Allahyar 36 per cent, Badin 23 per cent and Tharparkar’s water had 28 per cent of human waste.
Water samples had been collected from 71 hospitals of 14 districts of the province, and they contained 33 harmful elements for human life.
