It seems that the federal government has learnt no lessons from the recent heat wave in Karachi that claimed the lives of over 1,300 citizens. The Capital Development Authority (CDA) in Islamabad has recently announced plans to expand the Islamabad Highway (from Zero Point to Rawat) to five lanes on each side, felling around 300 fully-grown trees in the process. This is in addition to the damage caused during the construction of the Metro Bus project, when an estimated 600 old trees and around 4,000 smaller trees and shrubs were also cut down. Such is the developmental belligerence of the CDA that this time, it has not even bothered getting any approval from the Pakistan Environment...
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