ISLAMABAD – Pakistani authorities have lodged a case against Indian pilots for destroying trees in Jaba village, Balakot, the country's environment minister confirmed on Friday. Officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Forest Department have lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against ...

ISLAMABAD – The Balochistan government has planned to plant 250 million trees across the province under the project of ‘Clean and Green Pakistan’ as part of its efforts to tackle the climatic issues in the province. The provincial forest department has already distributed 68,000 saplings ...

PESHAWAR – Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Shah Farman Thursday inaugurated Fruit for all drive here at Hayatabad by planting a sapling. Under the drive as many as 250 plants of orange would be planted in Hayatabad areas here while 5 million to be planted across the province in collaboration with ...

ISLAMABAD – Capital Development Authority (CDA) Environment Wing Tuesday charged Juniper Arcade plaza owner Salman Ajmal for illegally chopping off a half century old Eucalyptus tree in the premises of Super Market in sector F-6. CDA Director Environment East Irfan Niazi said that the plaza owner ...

KARACHI - Scores of people are criticising the plantation of Conocarpus in the Sindh capital city amid a Million tree Tsunami campaign of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). The plantation of an alien plants species - the Conocarpus - is considered to be one of the biggest environmental crimes by the ...

KARACHI - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Sunday distributed ‘Pencil with Seeds’ among schoolchildren as a part of Imran Khan’s Million Tree Tsunami campaign in the port city. This is a very innovative concept to encourage children to plant. The rubber part of pencil has a degradable capsule that ...

LAHORE - Speakers at a tree plantation drive jointly organised by WWF-Pakistan and PepsiCo at Lahore's Sundar Industrial Estate (SIE) have stressed the need to revisit the country's development schemes to address the environmental concerns. The drive is part of PepsiCo’s commitment to plant ...

ISLAMABAD - The federal government is mulling to hand over tree plantation task to Pakistan Army, Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan said on Tuesday. The regions of Azad Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and FATA contains large forests which need to be taken control of by ...