Bahria Town project: Notice issued to DAG over KMC plea

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Bahria Town project: Notice issued to DAG over KMC plea

KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) issued notices to the deputy attorney general and provincial advocate-general on Tuesday on the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation’s (KMC) appeal against the single bench’s order to stop construction work on underpasses and a flyover in Clifton.
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has assailed a single bench’s order passed on April 20, allowing the Defence Housing Authority’s lawsuit against such constructions by Bahria Town claiming the same was being carried out in violation of environmental laws.
Farooq H Naek, the KMC’s lawyer, maintained that the project in question is of national importance and its suspension is causing inconvenience to the general public, as well as significant losses to the appellant.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 7th, 2014.