Residential areas: commercial activities cannot be allowed: LHC

The Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed here Thursday hearing a petition for seeking stay against commercial activities in Garden Town observed that commercial activities could not be allowed in residential areas.
The petitioner Muhammad Asif of Garden Town submitted that illegal commercial activities in the area have made the lives of the residents a hell. The residents are facing a lot of noise pollution and also their lives are in danger at the hands of unchecked and illegal commercial activities, he added. The petitioner, therefore, prayed to the court to issue a stay order against such activities in his area. The court after hearing initial arguments of the petitioner's counsel issued notices to Punjab government and Lahore Development Authority for February 10 and rose for the day.