Daily Times
July 25, 2021
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday has once again urged the nation to fully participate in the government’s monsoon tree plantation drive, turning Pakistan into a green country.
Taking to Twitter, the prime minister posted a combo of pictures in which he was seen planting a pine tree in Nathiagali. “Planting pine trees in Nathiagali as part of our monsoon tree plantation campaign. I want our whole nation to participate in the greening of Pakistan,” the prime minister posted. In his previous tweets, on different occasions, the prime minister had been consistently motivating the people to actively take part in the country’s biggest tree plantation campaign. He also made references to the monsoon tree plantation drive in the country under his government’s ambitious Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme and Green and Clean Pakistan initiative.
Afforestation in Bhakkar gains momentum
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Rs14,327m allocated for projects of protection of environment to meet challenge of climate change
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We have already finalised our climate change-related policy and considering challenges of urban infrastructure and major change in the weather trend, said Murtaza Wahab. DawnNewsTV/File
KARACHI: The Sindh government has set an ambitious target for 2021-22 to address the growing challenge of environmental issues, setting aside more than a billion rupees for that purpose the highest-ever budget for the area in the province’s history with focus on sewage treatment plants in major cities and urban foresting to cover 2,000 acres in and around cities and towns of the province.
The budget announced by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah in the Sindh Assembly last month finally took a shape to get executed with the beginning of several new financial targets that appeared to be an uphill task for the authorities to complete them within a year. However, his Adviser on Law, Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development, Barrister Murtaza Wahab, sounded confident saying the budg