Suo motu case: Balochistan arch secretary summoned for slicing trees

Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar. PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: The tip justice on Friday summoned Balochistan arch secretary for slicing trees in Balochistan to extend a road.

The three-judge dais of a peak court, headed by Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh, while conference a suo motu box voiced distrurbance over slicing of trees in district Pishin of Balochistan. The dais celebrated that it is an irony to cut trees in a dried areas of a province.

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An focus was filed before a peak justice that a 10-kilometre Pishin-Yaroo Link Road was being extended in Pishin district and over 2,200 trees would be cut down for a purpose. The applicant told a justice that these trees could be saved by earmarking an choice route, though nothing of a departments operative on a plan had any seductiveness in conserving a area’s environment. Trees are needed for a drought-prone and hilly areas of Balochistan, a applicant added.

Previously, reports on a emanate were sought from a communication and works dialect secretary, a timberland secretary and a provincial environmental insurance agency. The reports suggested that a prolongation would be a intensity hazard to 2,200 trees. The bench, rejecting a provincial government’s news on a issue, summoned arch secretary and shelved a conference for one week.

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