Environmental protection is government's top priority, says PM Khan.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the protection of country's environment is top priority of the government.

Addressing the 7th Asian Regional Conservative Forum of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Islamabad on Wednesday, the prime minister said Pakistan was a diverse country. 'Pakistan has twelve ecological zones from desert to Himalayan forests which are rare in the world,' he said.

The prime minister added the population growth and the lack of interest for protection of environment in the past has devastated our wildlife and forests.

'The PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the first government which took the first major step to deal with the climate change by launching the billion tree Tsunami project,' the prime minister said.

He said the magic formula of the success of this initiative was that local people including women were involved besides action was taken action against the timber mafia.

The prime minister added the federal government of PTI has now embarked upon an ambitious plan of planting ten billion trees. 'This year we will launch massive...