Islamabad tree tsunami launched

NA Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri says govt focusing on encouraging trend of growing plants

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri on Saturday said plantation was need of the hour and government was focusing on encouraging the trend of growing plants to secure future through a better environment.

The area under forests in the country was in rapid decline and impacting the environment badly, he said while speaking on the occasion of a Tree Plantation event “Islamabad Tree Tsunami 2019 - Think Green”. The deputy speaker said the plantation project that had started in 2013 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) by the Imran Khan had been appreciated across the world.

He said parliamentarians were planting saplings in their respective constituencies, adding the people of his constituency were also taking part with zeal in the country wide campaign to plant saplings.

Strongly condemning the recent terror attack in Quetta on Friday, he said, terrorism had affected the whole world badly, however, such acts could not intimidate people. Important steps were being taken under the National Action Plan to root out this menace he said. Suri said nation had sacrificed a large number of lives in war against terror.  

Published in The Express Tribune, April 14^th, 2019.