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Thursday March 28, 2024

Encroached watercourse

This refers to the news report, ‘Encroachments on water courses main cause of floods’ (July 28). One agrees with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister’s observation that urban flooding was caused due to encroachments on watercourses. In this connection, the chief minister’s announcement launching an anti-encroachment operation is a right step.I

By our correspondents
August 04, 2015
This refers to the news report, ‘Encroachments on water courses main cause of floods’ (July 28). One agrees with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister’s observation that urban flooding was caused due to encroachments on watercourses. In this connection, the chief minister’s announcement launching an anti-encroachment operation is a right step.
I appeal to the CM to also start a similar anti-encroachment operation in Abbottabad. The worst and most dangerous example in the city is buildings being constructed on Pine View Road, in the Cantonment Area, blocking a century-old watercourse (nullah) and causing irreparable environmental damage.
Ilyas Khan
Abbottabad