Air pollution in Sindh has lessened, claims minister

The protection of the environment is an important component of mega development projects being built in Sindh with the federal government’s assistance, said Governor Mohammad Zubair on Friday.

In a meeting the Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan at his office, Governor Zubair said that to protect the environment, green belts will be developed alongside the infrastructure of mega development projects that the federal government is helping build in the province.

Observing that less attention is being paid toward initiating plantation drives in urban centres, the governor said that while tree cover in mega cities like Karachi has declined significantly, the population has increased in tandem, stated a press release issued from Governor House.

“People have been suffering from fatal diseases owing to serious degradation of the environment,” he said. The governor further added that the federal govt had been providing assistance for implementing special schemes in the province to improve environment on a concrete basis.

Economic, social, commercial and trading activities in the province have been on the rise in Sindh with improvement in the law and order situation, Zubair claimed. Mushahidullah said that Pakistan has been affected much by climate change and environmental degradation.

He added that the effects of climate change could get worse in Pakistan but claimed that the federal govt had taking steps to reverse some effects and improve the environment across the country.

Mushahidullah further claimed that the federal government has been taking steps to lessen the occurrence of air pollution in Sindh, adding that it had been controlled to a large extent owing to those steps.