- Directs to make administrative steps to control price hike
ISLAMABAD, November 6: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said protection of the country’s environment is top priority of the government.
He was addressing the 7th Asian Regional Conservative Forum of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Islamabad on Wednesday.
The Prime Minister said Pakistan is a diverse country. It has twelve ecological zones from desert to Himalayan forests which are rare in the world.
He, however, said the population growth and the lack of interest for protection of environment in the past devasted our wildlife and forests.
Imran Khan said the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the first government which took the first major step to deal with the climate change by launching the billion tree Tsunami project.
He said the magic formula of the success of this initiative was that local people including women were involved besides action was taken action against the timber mafia.
Imran Khan said the federal government of PTI has now embarked upon an ambitious plan of planting ten billion trees.
He said this year we will launch massive tree plantation drives across the country as the necessary planning and infrastructure including nurseries have been developed in the first year.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed to make administrative steps more effective to curtail hoarders and profiteers.
He was chairing a meeting on controlling the prices of essential items in Islamabad.
The Prime Minister directed the provincial administration to take effective steps against profiteering and hoarding besides sending daily and weekly analysis report on rise and fall of prices of essential items at urban and rural tehsils of each district to the Prime Minister Office in order to keep a check on the situation of prices.-NNI/Agencies
