Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday launched monsoon tree plantation campaign, dedicating year 2009 to environment protection and greener Pakistan.
He kicked off the plantation campaign by planting a sapling of araucaria in the lawns of Prime Minister's House.
Talking to newsmen, he symbolised the freshly planted sapling with a tree of democracy which he said grew in the hands of Benazir Bhutto.
He said forests covered five percent of the land and would be stretched over 6 percent by 2015.