Tree Plantation in Pakistan

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Punjab CM launches tree plantation drive

Earlier today, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar launched the plantation drive in the province by planting a sapling at an artificial forest at Shadman Market in Lahore.

According to Radio Pakistan, the chief minister said that the PTI government was committed to completing the target of planting ten billion trees in the country by 2023.

He said that Pakistan is facing the challenge of climate change as well as the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, timely steps are needed to provide a healthy environment to the people, the report quoted him as saying.

He added that the provincial government had organised 520 ceremonies in different cities and towns to mark Tiger Force Day.


Plantation drive launched in KP

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan also inaugurated the campaign in the province by planting a sapling in Peshawar.

Speaking on the occasion, he said that the target was to plant two million trees in the province. He added that participating in the campaign was not new for the people of the province. "In the past five years, we have planted 1.2 billion saplings," he said.

However, the plantation drive did not go quite as smoothly in Khyber district's Bara tehsil where citizens staged a protest.

After the district administration inaugurated the campaign, local elders gathered at the site and said that the drive had been launched on their land, claiming that the government wished to deprive them of their land.

They attacked district administration officials, Tiger Force volunteers and uprooted saplings. The KP chief minister also took notice of the incident.

Speaking to Dawn.com, a district administration official said that there was a dispute between two powerful tribes over the ownership of the land. "One of the parties was present when the campaign was inaugurated, while the other was unaware about the drive and uprooted the saplings," he said.


Opposition invited to participate

Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Youth Affairs Usman Dar had also urged opposition parties to express solidarity and plant trees with the Tiger Force.

Addressing a press conference in Lahore on Saturday, he had particularly invited opposition parties leaders Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Murad Ali Shah, Khawaja Asif and Ahsan Iqbal to join hands with the government and plant saplings.

He had said the Tiger Force would create history by planting two million trees in a day and added that some 350,000 Tiger Force youth had performed duties during the coronavirus pandemic.

 

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China government account
Ambassador Yao Jing planted a tree at the Embassy today to echo the tree plantation drive of Prime Minister Imran Khan. In 2 years, the Embassy has planted 500 trees in the compound. Green Embassy, Green Pakistan!
@ForeignOfficePk
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Sayed Z Bukhari
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Join PM
@ImranKhanPTI

in the biggest tree plantation campaign by planting a tree in your area, as we aim to plant 3.5 million+ trees today! Let us be defined as the nation who planted trees for our future generations, let’s do it for our children!

 

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'This is just the beginning': PM Imran launches country's largest plantation campaign on Tiger Force Day

Dawn.com
09 Aug 2020

Prime Minister Imran Khan plants a sapling during a ceremony in Islamabad. — DawnNewsTV


Prime Minister Imran Khan launched the country's largest tree plantation campaign on Sunday with the aim of planting 3.5 million saplings in the country in a single day.

Addressing a ceremony in Islamabad, the premier began his address by thanking all those who had participated in today's campaign.


He stated that Pakistan was among the top ten countries most affected by climate change. "Our wheat production has fallen over the past two years due to climate change and unprecedented rainfall."

"If we keep continuing on this path, then some of the areas will become deserts," he said, adding, "It is our responsibility to make the country green for future generations," he said.

"The 3.5 million saplings that we have planted today is just the start. This is a constant, ongoing battle, [but] we are not doing this for us. We are doing it for the coming generations," he said. "This is just the beginning. This is a long battle, but thankfully we have started the process," he said, vowing that trees would be planted in "empty spaces" in cities.

The premier also urged women to participate. "The women have to participate the most," he said.

He added that in addition to making the country green, the nation also had to focus on cleaning the country's rivers.

"So first we have to make the country green by planting trees, but simultaneously we also have to focus on cleanliness and make our rivers clean once again. Planting trees will also help in cleaning our climate and lessening pollution."

The prime minister concluded his speech by addressing the Tiger Force volunteers. "You are our future. The work you did today, you did it to improve your own and the country's future." He also lauded them for the role they played in supporting the government's coronavirus response.

"Today Pakistan is among those few countries that have successfully managed to control the pandemic," he said, adding that the world now recgonises Pakistan's successful strategy.

He also urged the nation to refrain from flouting standard operating procedures (SOPs) just because the number of cases was falling. "Wear a mask every time you leave the house," he said, adding that not wearing one would amount to being "ungrateful".

He also appealed to Shia Muslims to take precautionary measures during Muharram. "This is a time for precaution. If God has blessed us, then we need to be thankful and wear a mask."

In a tweet on Saturday, the premier had asked members of parliament, the chief ministers of all the provinces and volunteers from the Corona Relief Tiger Force to participate in the plantation drive, which is being carried out on Tiger Force Day.

"The target is 35 lakh trees in a day though we will try to exceed it," the premier had said.

 

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[URL='https://twitter.com/Ali_F_Alizada']Ali Alizada

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Pleased to join the initiative and call of
@ImranKhanPTI
for tree plantation campaign across #Pakistan

. #Azerbaijan always supports actions against #ClimateChange

 

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KP

Handout, 9 August 2020
Chief Secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dr. Kazim Niaz has strictly warned that illegal harvesting of trees will not be tolerated in any case and Timber Ma Fia will be punished according to the law so that he can be punished. Become a lesson to others and the relevant departments will be held responsible for which the full support of the Awami members of the AWA has been given to AWA.

 

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Web Desk
August 9, 2020

PM Imran to kick off Pakistan's biggest tree plantation drive today

Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam says PM would plant a sapling in Islamabad.


ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will kick off the biggest tree plantation drive in Pakistan's history today as the country plans to plant 3.5 million saplings in a single day.

Over a million volunteers of the Prime Minister's Tiger Force will also plant trees as part of the government's '10 Billion Tree Tsunami' initiative, marking the 'Tiger Force Day'.

In a message on Saturday, the prime minister had said he has also asked the members of parliament, ministers and chief ministers to participate in the plantation drive.

Expressing hope that the drive will turn into the "biggest tree planting campaign" in history, he said: “The target is 35 lakh trees in a day, though we will try to exceed it.”

According to details, to participate in the plantation drive volunteers have taken charge of their roles and divided into different teams to dispense their duties.

Following the prime minister’s directives, the distribution of 350,000 saplings has been completed so that they can be planted today.

Special Assistant to PM on Youth Affairs Usman Dar in his message ahead of the campaign, asked opposition politicians Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto, Khawaja Asif and others to join the plantation drive.

“The Sindh government should [join us in] favour of national interest,” the politician had said.

 

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Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said all provinces, including Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad Capital Territory will participate in plantation campaign, with one million members of Tiger Force joining the campaign.

“A target of 300,000 trees for plantation has been set for Sindh, 1.2 million for Punjab and two million trees in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” he said. “In the federal capital, around 1.2 million saplings would be planted under the initiative.”

The adviser noted that the first billion trees' target under Ten Billion Tree Tsunami initiative was going to be achieved by June 2021 as the stocks of saplings were augmented from 50 million to 300 million.

 

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NHA launches plantation drive

The Frontier Post
August 9, 2020


ISLAMABAD: In line with vision of Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Imran Khan and as per instructions of Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services Mr. Murad Saeed, National Highway Authority planted a number of saplings along its Motorways and National Highways Network throughout the country.

To this effect, NHA Headquarters and its Regional offices located in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and maintenance units took active part to advance this noble cause.

The NHA officers and officials obtained cooperation of the concerned MNAs and MPAs and involved civil society at large to make this campaign a real success.It is to recall that National Highway Authority is already planting trees all along its network under a coordinated program.

This National Campaign will be continued with national fervor and spirit in the days to come.

 

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superb initiative

very well decision by PM IK

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COPHC in Gwadar planted thousands of trees to echo the tree plantation drive of PM Imran Khan.
The Company has developed 5 green Parks in the last two years. They made "Long live Pakistan and China" with trees, which symbolize the friendship will last forever.

 

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we need billions of more trees damn we are lined up with desert countries in map what a shame .