Sunday, November 15, 2009

Battle for Lahore


By Jalees Hazir (in The Nation, 15 November 2009)

The Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved a Rs 3.5 billion road-widening project for the Lahore Canal Road from Dharampura to Thokar Niaz Beg. This ill-advised plan threatens the most valuable asset of the city and will cause irreparable damage to not only the natural environment, but also the unique and friendly social fabric of the city, if it goes ahead. The question is: Why does the chief minister, who does not tire of harping upon his sincerity to the people, want to embark upon such an anti-people disaster?

Read the rest of this excellent article here.

2 comments:

  1. You rich fat ass pigs of Lahore bachao tehreek!
    Can't move your ass for the people that are dying every day and here you are saving 1400 trees. You don't care about the ambulances that get stuck in the traffic every day and the nerve wrecking traffic congestion people suffer from every day...

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  2. Khuda ka Wasta hai......plssssssssssss let it go n pave way for ending misery of atleast half a million people. Allah aap ko iska ajar de ga.

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