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We must concede the fact that there is no single effective way to stop wildfires from growing in Margalla and elsewhere. Yet the previous strategy of hiring and deploying 400 or so volunteers to tend to the Margalla forests in the summer and fight wildfires seemed to work as opposed to the costlier option of hiring helicopters to extinguish the fires. A row between the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad and the Islamabad Wildlife Board however has prevented the deployment of 400 volunteers this year.
There are also suspicions that the Margalla fires are unnatural and linked to the turf war between the MCI and the wildlife board. Whatever the truth, it is time the authorities got to the bottom of this affair and determined who is at fault. The federal government should not waste another day and conduct a thorough investigation into the rapid destruction of the forest.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 5th, 2018.
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