After ruthlessly cutting the trees, both dense riverside forests and tress along roads and highways, now the mafia in Sindh province is seen destroying millions of years old it’s beautiful and lofty mountains through dynamites and other explosive chemicals in various lower Sindh districts especially in Thatto, Jamshoro and Dadu. The effects of pollution are notorious though virtually unrecorded. This criminal act has brought a drastic disturbance to their way of life and standard of living that amounts to cultural genocide.
It is reported that a few national and multinational companies, their contractors and the ministers and officials helping these companies in unlawful, unethical manner have taken possession of these mountains. Sindh as a province is not going to get any benefit from this but a chosen few whose greed can’t be catered to.
Mountains are not only beauty of Sindh’s complete and classic geography but there are also millions of people who depend on these mountains. Since ruthless chopping down of forests has already caused environmental devastation, many districts of Sindh stand flooded and ruined where rural economy has been shattered.
However, the president of Pakistan is appealed to take cognizance of this criminal act against mountain ecology and order strict action against the violators to check environmental degradations.
HASHIM ABRO
Islamabad
