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As many as 24 huts or restaurants of different sizes are operating in the Margalla Hills area that have started causing increase in vehicle pollution, migration of birds due to noise and degradation of flora and fauna.
The environments have been continuously raising voice against non-implementation of existing environmental laws, but the situation is turning from bad to worse with each passing day. They said there are certain laws that need to be implemented including the Islamabad Wildlife Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management Ordinance 1979, the Islamabad Preservation of Landscape Ordinance 1966, the Islamabad Wildlife Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management Rules 1983, Islamabad Capital Territory Zoning Regulations 1992 and the guidelines provided in judgments of Supreme Court of Pakistan in suo moto case No.10 of 2005 and case titled as ‘Moulvi Iqbal Haider Vs. Capital Development Authority’ reported in PLD 2006 SC 394.
Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has taken an important step in the form of a new survey that would help prepare an environmental profile of Islamabad to gauge and improve the city’s environment. The CDA official data showed that about 90,000 light and heavy vehicles, diverted from GT Road, trespass through Kashmir Highway and half of them are diesel driven trucks. This traffic adds 377 tons of particulate matters in the air each year. The total estimated generation of solid waste in Islamabad is 600-700 tons per day, but neither any landfill nor incinerator is available here for proper disposal of city’s garbage.
As many as 24 huts or restaurants of different sizes are operating in the Margalla Hills area that have started causing increase in vehicle pollution, migration of birds due to noise and degradation of flora and fauna.
The environments have been continuously raising voice against non-implementation of existing environmental laws, but the situation is turning from bad to worse with each passing day. They said there are certain laws that need to be implemented including the Islamabad Wildlife Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management Ordinance 1979, the Islamabad Preservation of Landscape Ordinance 1966, the Islamabad Wildlife Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management Rules 1983, Islamabad Capital Territory Zoning Regulations 1992 and the guidelines provided in judgments of Supreme Court of Pakistan in suo moto case No.10 of 2005 and case titled as ‘Moulvi Iqbal Haider Vs. Capital Development Authority’ reported in PLD 2006 SC 394.
Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has taken an important step in the form of a new survey that would help prepare an environmental profile of Islamabad to gauge and improve the city’s environment. The CDA official data showed that about 90,000 light and heavy vehicles, diverted from GT Road, trespass through Kashmir Highway and half of them are diesel driven trucks. This traffic adds 377 tons of particulate matters in the air each year. The total estimated generation of solid waste in Islamabad is 600-700 tons per day, but neither any landfill nor incinerator is available here for proper disposal of city’s garbage.
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