Under the campaign ‘Sarsabz-o-Shadab Pakistan,’ the Pakistan Army simultaneously planted 2 million trees on Monday, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
ISPR Director General (DG) Major General Asif Ghafoor said that the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and his wife launched the ‘Sarsabz-o-Shadab Pakistan’ campaign, in which, around 20 million plants were planted.
COAS’ wife urged the Pakistanis to support this cause and do their utmost to achieve a ‘greener’ Pakistan. “Trees are life. Plant trees to save lives,” General Bajwa said in his message on the occasion.
In an earlier tweet, the ISPR DG said, “COAS will initiate simultaneous plantation of two million trees across the country today, under the army arrangements with planned target of 10 million trees during this monsoon.”
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which is expected to form the government in the centre with Imran Khan as prime minister, will also plant billions of trees to tackle the effects of climate change.
Malik Amin Aslam, who is tipped to become environment minister, said that the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami programme would see trees planted nationwide, including in the four provincial capitals, according to Reuters. The PTI previously launched a vast tree-planting project in Khyber Pukhtunkwa.