No corporation can buy the 'right to destroy': Interview with activist Raja Waseem Ahmed
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Raja Waseem Ahmed's Kahoon Protection Committee won a historic ruling from Pakistan's Supreme Court that banned mega cement factories from extracting local groundwater in Chakwal district and imposed huge fines, after the industrial pumping had crashed the water table from 36 meters to 122 meters and caused ecological damage to loquat orchards, sacred temples, and wildlife habitat.
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