PM Imran Khan inaugurates Pakistan’s largest tree plantation drive in Mianwali since the British era

  • the Kundian Jungle restoration project will create 50,000 contractual jobs initially
  • Ber fruit plants are used which will promote huge “Organic Honey” business in the region

KUNDIAN / PIPLAN (23rd Feb, 2020) – Prime Minister Imran Khan has an hour ago inaugurated Pakistan’s largest tree plantation drive in Mianwali District since the British era.

Imran Khan inaugurated the spring tree plantation drive titled “Forest Restoration” by planting a sapling here.

Malik Amin Aslam the Federal Minister of Climate Change/Advisor to Prime Minister who is the key person behind the massive tree plantation and environment reinvigoration drive in Pakistan was also present on the occasion.

At Mianwali Kundian Forest the target is restoration of the “Kundian Jungle” back to about nineteen thousand five hundred (19.5) thousand acres of which this year over five (5) thousand acres will be restored by tree plantations while five thousand acres of jungle already exists.

Adressing the massive event at Piplan tehsil the PM reiterated the immense importance of tree plantation for Pakistan and the environment and emphasized the importance of educating the youth about protecting the environment, plantation of trees and saving the trees.

PM said our last Holy Prophet Hazrat MUHAMMED Peace Be Upon Him ordered for plantation of trees over fourteen hundred years before and thus it is a religious obligation too for all us Pakistanis and Muslims.

The PM on spot ordered the government machinery to take stern action against people cutting trees and damaging forests/jungles and ordered that instead of just imposing fine send them to jails.

Going back to history Imran Khan said the British had left twenty thousand acres of jungle in Kundian and now it is being lessened to only about five thousand acres due to massive tree cutting over the decades.

Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar, members from parliament and other senior government officials were present on this occasion.

The Kundian Jungle restoration project will create 50,000 contractual jobs, and the plants being used are of Berri fruit which will promote huge organic Honey business in the region.

Earlier Malik Amin Aslam had through his twitter account posted a video explaining the salient features of the Kundian Forest Revival initiative under the leadership of Imran Khan PM Pakistan.