QUETTA: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court directed the provincial government on Tuesday to shift stone crushing plants from the municipal limits of Quetta city to safer areas in two months.

The bench comprising Chief Justice Mohammad Noor Meskanzai and Justice Mohammad Hashim Kakar issued the directive on a petition filed by Abdul Khair Achakzai advocate. The court asked the government to identify safer zones to be certified by the Environmental Protection Agency in a month. The zones should be located at the distance of two kilometres from national highways, residential areas, hospitals and schools.

It said that no one should be allowed to set up a stone crushing plant in the municipal limits of the city.

Published in Dawn, July 15th, 2015

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