Court's help sought to stop extraction of stones from Keenjhar Lake dykes.

THATTA -- The Directo-rate General of Mines and Mineral Development has asked the court, the district's revenue department and police to take immediate action to help it stop highly destructive practice of lifting stones and boulders from the dykes of Keenjhar Lake and stone-pitched ramparts of Indus Highway.

Amanullah Kathio, assistant director in the directorate, filed complaint in the court of third civil judge and judicial magistrate of Thatta that a gang of land grabbers and stone thieves in connivance with influential persons of the area were excavating limestone, particularly from Chillya and its surroundings, Keenjhar Lake dykes and Indus Highway.

The unabated stone lifting might do colossal damage to the largest freshwater body of the country, which was also a Ramsar site spread over 24 kilometre radius and the only source of water supply to metropolitan Karachi and Thatta, he warned.

They were using earth moving machines openly and...

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