Daily Archives: July 14, 2021

Minister of State for Climate Change, Zartaj Gul Wazir has lauded the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for taking steps for controlling and tackling the impacts of climate change.

Addressing a news conference in Peshawar on Wednesday, she said the mega project of the Billion Tree Tsunami project of the PTI government is yielding unbelievable positive results across the country particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The Minister of State said the world is also acknowledging the serious efforts of Pakistan to climate change.

Zartaj Gul said the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit service of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is a successful and environment friendly project.

She said the project has helped in reducing thirty-one thousand tons of pollution in Peshawar besides creating about three-thousand job opportunities for the youth.

Source: Radio Pakistan

Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for enhancing green cover to mitigate effects of fast urbanization in the country.

He was addressing a groundbreaking ceremony of different development projects of Capital Development Authority in Islamabad on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister said the urbanization of major cities, including Islamabad and Lahore, have created the problems of pollution and traffic congestion.

He emphasized on preparing a new master plan of Islamabad, preserving green cover and forestation in the unutilized lands in the federal capital.

He said Islamabad should become an example in plantation during the current monsoon season. He said action is being taken against land grabbers in the federal capital.

Source: Radio Pakistan