KARACHI: President of National Forum of Environment and Health (NFEH), Naeem Qureshi has warmly welcomed the initiative of Prime Minister Imran Khan to start a massive tree plantation across the country while utilising the newly formed Tiger Force under the auspices of the present federal government.

NFEH President Naeem Qureshi, who also is the convener of the FPCCI Standing Committee on Environment, praised the initiative of the PM to plant 3.5 million tree saplings in one day to set a new world record. He said that both the FPCCI and NFEH would fully back, in whatever manner they can do best, the PM's latest initiative to plant trees across the country.

He said that availing the services of newly raised Tiger Force for a nationwide tree plantation campaign was the best utilisation of the volunteers of the force for a noble national cause. Qureshi hoped that the latest move of the PM would go a long way in increasing greenery in the country and reversing the alarming phenomenon of environmental degradation in the country.

He said that the initiative would also further the drive of Clean and Green Pakistan and 10 billion Tree Tsunami Programme of the present government. The NFEH president said that in this regard the FPCCI's Standing Committee on Environment had been acting as a facilitator to assemble all the concerned government agencies, non-governmental organisations, industry, and corporate sector at a common platform to combine all of their resources to conduct tree plantation campaign across the country.

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