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Spring breeze: Committee sets target for 159m saplings to be planted

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ISLAMABAD: An interministerial and interprovincial committee has set a target of planting 159 million trees across the country in the upcoming spring season. The countrywide plantation drive will kick off from February. The target was set at a meeting chaired by Climate Change Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan, after taking input from representatives of all provincial […]


A fair trade? 5,000 saplings to replace five 50-year-old trees

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KARACHI: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) has promised to plant 5,000 trees across the entire neighbourhood in exchange for the five 50-year-old trees that it chopped down last week to widen a road. Four members of the Institute of Architects Pakistan (IAP) met DHA administrator Brigadier Zubair Ahmed on Tuesday afternoon at his office, three […]