ISLAMABAD: Deputy Speaker National Assembly Qasim Khan Suri 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”, here. The Deputy Speaker said the plantation project that had started in 2013 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) by the Prime Minister Imran Khan had been appreciated across the world. Important Steps were being taken under the National Action Plan to root out this menace, he said. Senator Seemi Ezdi, General Member Union Council 29 Islamabad, Afzal Khan and other members of the civil society were present on the occasion.

Source: Pakistan Today April 13, 2019 15:45 UTC