Petition seeks booking those behind Keamari gas tragedy.

KARACHI -- Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) through its chairman Altaf Shakoor here Monday filed a constitutional petition in Sindh High Court (SHC) requesting lodging of FIRs against those responsible for loss of human lives due to release of poisonous gas in Keamari area. PDP chairman Altaf Shakoor in his petition held through Advocate Aziz Irfan made Federation Of Pakistan, through the Principal Secretary; the federal minister for ports and shipping through Secretary, Ministry of Ports and Shipping; Chairman Karachi Port Trust; M.V.

Hercules through the Chairman KPT; Province of Sindh, through Chief Secretary; Inspector General of Sindh Police, Director General Sindh Environmental Protection Agency, Commissioner Karachi Division, Registrar Karachi University, and Director, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) respondent maintained that many people including women, children and elderly persons died and fell ill due to negligence, carelessness, slackness without the aid and intervention and preventive measures by the respondents federal minister for ports and shipping, and chairman KPT. He said the affected people of the area...

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