Overview

• Participants urged legal recognition of the Malir and Lyari rivers as living waterways with removal of encroachments and a ban on future construction in their channels.
• The resolution called for Malir, Gadap, Moedan and Kathore to be designated permanent green zones to safeguard farms and long-standing villages.
• Speakers demanded strict enforcement of the ban on sand and gravel extraction from riverbeds and a total prohibition on toxic industrial dumping into natural channels.
• Industries were pressed to adopt modern waste-management systems, with curbs on unchecked groundwater extraction for commercial use to protect city water reserves.
• Experts sought impartial environmental assessments for further work on the Bhutto Highway and flagged housing near the Malir Expressway, including Saadi Town and Saadi Garden, as built on waterways with reforestation proposed on exposed land.