PM for all-out efforts to ensure pollution-free clean and green Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Oct 19 (APP):Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday called for all-out efforts and measures, including the forestation to ensure a pollution-free clean and green environment to safeguard the country’s current and future generations from various diseases and climatic effects. “This is the time for government and nation to get mobilized to safeguard our children and future generations. There is a need of forestation,” he said while speaking as chief guest at the Encouragement Award Ceremony of Clean Green Index organized by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. The prime minister had launched the Clean Green Pakistan Movement (CGPI) on November 25, 2019. The major focus of the initiative was to inculcate a spirit of competition on cleanliness initiatives in the cities and facilitate the behavioural change, building positive attitudes, institutional strengthening for better water, sanitation and hygiene services, and facilities. The prime minister said Pakistan, which was bestowed by Allah Almighty with abundant natural resource and beauty, was not take care of in the past and was destroyed through a lot of deforestation. “Peshawar was known as a city of gardens and Lahore used to be a clean and green city…But now we have reached to this point. … Continue reading PM for all-out efforts to ensure pollution-free clean and green Pakistan