Hide storage irks Pindi residents

RAWALPINDI:

City residents on Wednesday urged the Municipal administration to relocate the makeshift animal hide warehouses from the residential areas as they were polluting the environment. Various animal skin traders had purchased hides of sacrificial animals from different charity organisations and had stored them at different sites across the city, including on Jamia Masjid road, Pir Choha chowk, Ratta Amral, Ghaznavi Road and other congested areas of the city. Residents argued that these warehouses pose a potential threat of diseases including dengue.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 13^th, 2020.