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Dawn Investigations: Building sandcastles in Karachi’s waters

A backwater fed by natural waterways used to be the sole domain of a protected mangrove forest, but a real estate developer with a chequered past has erected a boundary wall around it, in the hopes of turning it into a lucrative residential scheme.

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As one of the last few places in Karachi untouched by concrete, this mangrove-filled lagoon is at risk, rendered vulnerable by its sheer size, an eye-watering 650 acres, and tragically so, by the promise it offers: space to build on. PHOTO: DAWN

December 3, 2024

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