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POLLUTION * Pakistan - Trucks on Kashmir Highway polluting capital’s environment
Islamabad,Pakistan -The Daily Times (Lahore,Pakistan), by Atif Khan -27 Sept 2007: -- Heavy traffic on Kashmir Highway is causing ‘irreparable’ loss to Islamabad and Rawalpindi’s environment besides causing fatal lung diseases to residents, reveals a recent study by the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA)... Coming from Karachi and bound for Northern Areas and NWFP, around 2,000 trucks and six-wheelers use the 15 kilometres long Kashmir Highway as transit passageway through Islamabad every day. As these vehicles, by and large, are diesel run, they billow thick black clouds of smoke, polluting environment... (Picture from www.dkimages.com: Trucks in Sost, Pakistan.)Labels: polluting trucks
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