KARACHI, March 29: Representatives of the member organizations of the Pakistan National Committee (PNC) of IUCN on Thursday expressed solidarity with a fellow member, Shehri, for its stand against the attempt to convert the amenity plot known as Kidney Hill Park in Karachi, into a housing and commercial scheme.

According to a statement issued by the IUCN here, at a recent meeting of the PNC held in Lahore, a representative of Shehri briefed members on the background to the Kidney Hill case .

The Shehri representative said that despite assurances of security given to the organization by the police and the Sindh government, its members were receiving life threats on telephone and being harassed in different ways.

He said as a result of presumably similar pressure applied to residents of the area, who had originally joined with Shehri in filing a public interest petition in the Sindh High Court, the residents had conveyed to the court that they wished to withdraw the petition. Shehri had also withdrawn from the case, but the High Court held that since it was public interest litigation, it could not be withdrawn.—Staff Reporter