Influential encroachers make windfall profits as forest cover disappears in riverine area - Pakistan
Lifting water from Indus, free of cost, or using groundwater to cultivate the land they have encroached upon, these influential land grabbers literally mint money through forest land. —AFP/File MATIARI: A herd of cattle is lazily grazing vegetation on a pasture dotted with small ponds and pools of sparkling greenish blue water and encircled with different trees in a hamlet in the riverine area of Indus in Hala, Matiari district. The picturesque landscape used to be hallmark of every temporary human settlement in the riverine area since time immemorial but it has not been so anymore as thi...
Source: dawn.com