Commissioner directs PHA to make city green.

FAISALABAD -- Divisional Commissioner Silwat Saeed has directed the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) to take necessary steps for making Faisalabad city a lush-green metropolis.

Chairing a meeting here on Sunday, she said that during his recent visit, caretaker Chief Minister (CM) Punjab Mohsin Naqvi had expressed dismay over poor beauty of the city after taking an aerial view of the third major city of Pakistan.

Therefore, the PHA officials should take all necessary steps to make the city beautiful by planting maximum trees especially along main roads and developing greenbelts.

She also directed the Additional Commissioner Coordination to hand over services of 'Baildars' of all departments to the PHA so that they could plant maximum trees in the city. She ordered for installing such plants at both sides of main roads which had at least 6 feet height. 'In...