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.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/gilani-kicks-tree-planting-drive
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/daily-times-pakistan
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pollution
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trees
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cng
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pakistan