ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has said we want to leave a better Pakistan for our coming generations.
“ Pakistan is hosting World Environment Day” on June 05 which is great honor for us. This is acknowledgement of the fact that Pakistan is among those world countries which are endeavoring seriously to allay the impacts of global warming. We are making these efforts just not to show the world but we are doing so because we want to leave a better Pakistan for our coming generations”, he said this while addressing a ceremony in connection with Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Program in Haripur on Thursday
He went on to say that the coming generations will have to suffer heavily due to climate change as Pakistan is among 10 countries which are most vulnerable to climate change.
Most of the water into our rivers come from glaciers, he said adding we will have to face more difficulties if the glaciers continue to melt at this pace due to global warming.
This is not only our issue but India is also facing this issue, he remarked. The field area of river Ganga relies on glaciers, he added.
Citing to Billion tree Tsunami project he said it is our endeavor the impact of climate change is reduced and reversed and secondly we want that we should leave Pakistan for our coming generation what we have seen.
Pakistan in which I have grown up, it had forests in large areas of land, he pointed out. The wild life was galore and proper arrangements were made in the cities. Lahore was a neat and clean city. The water was clean and not polluted. But no one thought about future and they caused harm to their own cities.
But we have seen from the example of China that if a nation decides then the things can change, he remarked. When I visited Singapore for the first time I saw that their central river was just a nullah of polluted water. Now they have cleansed this river.
He underlined that It is not necessary that we have gone to wrong direction and we cannot rectify them. The things can be rectified and these are our endeavors. We have to expand 10 billions trees tsunami and national parks.
He pointed out a forest has been grown on river bank in Dera Ismail Khan where wild life and birds have come. This has led to increase the job opportunities for the people. It has created tourism opportunities as well, he added.
