Plantation necessary to avert temperature rise: Zarta.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul Wednesday said tree plantation was necessary to avert temperature increase as many people had died in Karachi due to heat wave. The ministerstated this while inaugurating spring Tree Plantation at Islamabad Model College for Girls, I-8/4. She said planting tree was the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan, which aimed at making the country a disaster resilient through restoration of its natural reserves. She said other than Karachi, deserts of Thar and Cholistan and areas of South Punjab were also under serious impact of climate change that was causing large scale migration from those areas. 'The cities around the country are already over populated and cannot cater extra number of masses over a long period of time.

There is urgent need to take preventive and climate change adaptive measures to control serious environmental degradation in the region,' she added. Zartaj was of the view that planting a...