{"id":85706,"date":"2022-04-29T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=85706"},"modified":"2022-04-29T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:11:04","slug":"sc-kp-stone-crushing-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-kp-stone-crushing-plants.html","title":{"rendered":"SC orders KP stone crushing plants to halt operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-bars-stone-crushing-in-margalla-hills-national-park.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SCP<\/a>) on Monday (April 25) ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government to suspend operations of all power stone crushing plants, news sources reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-stone-crushing-association-to-work-on-tax-issues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBR, Stone Crushing Association to work on resolving tax, other industry issues<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary reason for the judgement, according to the Supreme Court, was environmental and local population concerns. According to reports, in a dispute involving the blasting method for stone crushing, the apex court ordered the provincial government to shut down all units within two months. The SCP also directed the KP government to appoint a commission to study the province&#8217;s escalating pollution problem caused by stone crushing plants and produce a report on the matter within the next several days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/stone-crushers-sealed-in-hassanabdal-over-illegal-limestone-extraction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stone crushers sealed in Hassanabdal over illegal limestone extraction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the court was informed that the KP stone crushers guidelines had been changed to enable stone crushing facilities to be built within 500 metres of residential areas rather than the prior distance limit of 1,000 metres. The SCP judges ordered the KP government to put monitoring equipment on power crushers, and those companies that refused to install their system were ordered to shut down immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) on Monday (April 25) ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government to suspend operations of all power stone crushing plants, news sources reported. Read: FBR, Stone Crushing Association to work on resolving tax, other industry issues The primary reason for the judgement, according to the Supreme Court, was environmental and local population concerns. According to reports, in a dispute involving the blasting method for stone crushing, the apex court ordered the provincial government to shut down all units within two months. The SCP also directed the KP government to appoint a commission to study the province&#8217;s escalating pollution problem caused by stone crushing plants and produce a report on the matter within the next several days. Read: Stone crushers sealed in Hassanabdal over illegal limestone extraction In addition, the court was informed that the KP stone crushers guidelines had been changed to enable stone crushing facilities to be built within 500 metres of residential areas rather than the prior distance limit of 1,000 metres. The SCP judges ordered the KP government to put monitoring equipment on power crushers, and those companies that refused to install their system were ordered to shut down immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":85747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[52140,19084],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-sc-orders-kp-stone-crushing-plants-to-halt-operations","10":"tag-supreme-court-sc","11":"cat-15016-id","12":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC orders KP stone crushing plants to halt operations - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) on Monday (April 25) ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government to suspend operations of all power\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-kp-stone-crushing-plants.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC orders KP stone crushing plants to halt operations - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) on Monday (April 25) ordered the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government to suspend operations of all power\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-kp-stone-crushing-plants.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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