Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged all Pakistanis, especially youth, to gear up for the biggest tree planting campaign in country’s history.
In a tweet, he said we have a lot of catching up to do.
I want all Pakistanis, esp our youth, to gear up for the biggest tree planting campaign in our history. We have a lot of catching up to do. pic.twitter.com/miObo6XLK6
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) June 27, 2021
The Prime Minister also shared a graphic image showing that the world average has 422 trees for every person, while Pakistan has just five trees for an individual.
And we will be gearing up this monsoon season for our plantation drive – the biggest in Pakistan’s history.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) June 27, 2021
The image showed Canada has 10,163 trees per person, Greenland 4,964, Australia 3,266, the United States 699, France 203, Ethiopia 143, China 130, the United Kingdom 47, and India 28 trees per person.