‘25,000 saplings to be planted during monsoon’

Rawalpindi: Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister and Chairman Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA), Asif Mahmood Saturday said that on the special directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan and Punjab CM Sardar Usman Buzdar, more than 25,000 saplings would be planted in Rawalpindi during monsoon to ensure neat and clean environment.

While inaugurating the tree plantation campaign in Quaid-e-Azam park and Gulzar-e-Quaid, he said the saplings would be distributed among the people by setting up stalls to promote the concept of plantation for healthy atmosphere. He was flanked by federal Parliamentary Secretary on Anti-Narcotics Shaikh Rashid Shafiq, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Zubair, Rawalpindi Deputy Commissioner (DC) Captain (r) Anwarul-Haq and the Director General PHA.