Pakistan Environmental News

KARACHI: Barring a few tertiary care hospitals in the city, no healthcare facility in Karachi has a proper mechanism to safely collect and dispose of its medical waste. The highly hazardous refuse is either sold by healthcare facilities, unsafely dumped within the neighbourhoods or taken to the decades-old government incinerators lacking independent monitoring, medical experts […]

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Sindh’s local government minister has said that all the relevant stakeholders should take measures on a war footing to clear the municipal waste in Karachi, otherwise the situation indicates that the city is heading straight towards an environmental emergency. Addressing a news conference on Tuesday, LG Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah expressed his resolve that […]

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KARACHI: The Sindh government has invited individuals and organisations to make ‘green spaces’ — an area of grass, trees, or other vegetation set apart for recreational or aesthetic purposes — across the province by utilising lands available with the public health and rural development department, officials said on Tuesday. “We have lands available at our […]

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ISLAMABAD: With annual deforestation rate in Pakistan recorded as the world’s highest, the Lahore High Court has observed that such tendency will lead to increase in the spread of life-threatening diseases and ordered the Punjab government, Defence Housing Authority and various other development authorities to make a comprehensive policy for tree plantation and penalising those […]

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PESHAWAR: The government would spend around Rs9.065 billion on plantations related activities in erstwhile Fata to bring its vast lands under forestry cover in 10 billion trees afforstration project (10BTAP) to counter climate change’s challenges. “KP Forest Department will carry out 47 percent plantations activities in erstwhile Fata keeping in view of the availability of […]

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