karachi

May 30, 2021

Where did 1,500 tonnes of mercury-contaminated sludge go?

“The hull of the ship is crystal clear, and the rusted walls suggest that it did not have oil for a couple of years,” commented Balochistan government official Mohammad Khan, as he on Saturday boarded the decommissioned vessel ‘MT Cherish’ allegedly carrying over 1,500 tonnes of toxic waste and beached at Gadani for recycling for a month.Khan is the head of the environment protection committee that has been investigating the case of the mercury-contaminated ship that reached Pakistan...