Sindh govt launches tree plantation drive on Benazir's birthday.

KARACHI -- The Sindh government on Friday launched tree plantation campaign in the province on the birthday of party leader Benazir Bhutto.

The campaign was launched by Provincial Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and Adviser to Chief Minister Sindh on Information Barrister Murtaza Wahab from Yadgar-e-Shuhuda at Karsaz area in the city, where Benazir Bhutto survived a bomb attack that claimed lives of over 150 people after her return to country in October 2007.

The ministers announced starting the campaign saying that their party: Pakistan People's Party: started tree plantation campaign not only in the province but also the countrywide.

Urging citizens to participate in the plantation campaign for better climate, they said that the government would also ensure plantation of environment-friendly trees during the campaign.

Nasir Shah said that urban forest project was also included in the plantation drive and a huge amount is also allocated for the drive in the budget 2019-20.

'Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has also instructed the Sindh government to plant more and more trees for pleasant and better environment,' he added. Speaking on the occasion, Murtaza Wahab said that tree plantation project will start from Lyari and Malir River in the city.

Wahab while applauding her leader said that she was born to live forever in the history and those who wanted to finish her have themselves vanished but Benazir Bhutto lives on in the heart and minds of people of the country.

'She was the greatest human asset God had bestowed upon our nation after independence and she and her father Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto imagined and pursued a revolution to make Pakistan strongest, peaceful and prosperous country,' he said. The advisor said that Pakistan People's Party Leadership and workers will follow the vision and mission of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and they won't rest until accomplishment of her cherished dreams.

Wahab said that her valiant struggle and brave resistance to the dictatorial forces and their henchmen has become a permanent source of inspiration and pride for the generations to come.

Today is the 66th birthday of our leader, the twice elected prime minister of Pakistan, the icon of women rights and Muslim world's first female Prime Minister who resisted the yearning of women for the flowering of their potential, he said adding that on her birthday today they also reassure the women of Pakistan of full support in their struggle against all forms...