Three members of the sub-committee of National Assembly's Standing Committee on Environment, joined school children of Karachi in planting mangrove saplings in the mud flat between Jherry and Gharo creek in the Port Qasim area. An announcement here said that the visit of the multi-party committee was a part of its current tour of environmentally sensitive sites across Sindh.
It said that the NA sub committee members, Marvi Memon of the PML-Q, Palwasha Khan of the Pakistan Peoples Party and Tayyab Hussain of the MQM, accompanied school children of The International School, Foundation Public School, Headstart and St. Josephs School to the island to plant mangrove sapling.
They were joined by school children from the neighbouring village of Ibrahim Hyderi. The Parliamentarians and children were briefed about the importance of mangroves by Tahir Qureshi and Rafi ul Haq of IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Pakistan.
They were then provided with saplings, which were planted by the children and MNAs.
Speaking on the occasion, the MNAs said the issue of saving the mangroves went beyond the political divide and provincial boundaries, and they pledged to raise the issue at the highest national level so that measures for their safeguarding could be implemented. It may be mentioned.