Residents of Malir, civil society groups, environmental activists, and lawyers have called for the cancellation of the Sindh government’s mega road project, Shahrah-e-Bhutto (formerly Malir Expressway), after sections of the newly inaugurated route were washed away in recent monsoon floods.

At a press conference on Monday at the Karachi Press Club, leaders of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Movement, Sindh Indigenous Rights Alliance, and Green Chamber-Climate Action Centre, including Ahmed Shabbir, Azeem Dhakan, Master Aslam, Abira Ashfaq, Advocate Zubair Abro, and Yasir Hussain, said the project was environmentally and financially disastrous.

They said the 39-kilometre multilane expressway is being built over the Malir Riverbed and floodplain, despite warnings at public hearings a

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