Following a confrontation with authorities, purportedly from the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), regarding the removal of trees from the Jail Chowrangi neighborhood of the city, a 79-year-old environmentalist was hurt on Thursday.
For ten years, Abdul Hameed Dagia has been involved in environmental concerns, telling Dawn.com that he was “attacked” because he would not cease the video recording of “illegal chopping down of trees.”
He had “several injuries,” according to his relatives, who informed Dawn.com that he was taken to the Aga Khan University Hospital, treated there, and then released.
He was sent to a different hospital with complaints of vertigo at 11:32 a.m., two hours after the “alleged assault,” according to his later referral, a copy of which can be found on the website.
