KP Govt, PRCS-MA Join Hands To Tackle Climate Change Effects.

PESHAWAR -- The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Pakistan Red Crescent Society Merged Areas (PRCS-MA) on Monday agreed to work together to tackle the effects of climate change in merged areas.

Addressing the launching ceremony of Phase-II of Climate Advocacy and Coordination for Resilient AcAtion, in Jamrud, district Khyber, Ishtiaq Urmar, KP Minister for Forests, Environment and Wildlife, said that more than 60 people had been arrested across the province for setting fire to forests. He said the provincial government would fully support the PRCS in planting trees and tackling climate change effects.

He said that Pakistan is the seventh-largest country in the world due to deforestation which is being afAfected by climate change.

On the occasion, Dr Noorul Haq Qadri, former fedAeral minister for religious affairs, said that Quran and Hadith instruct us to save water, plant or trees...