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Gen Bajwa to initiate plantation of two million trees today: ISPR

Gen Bajwa to initiate plantation of two million trees today: ISPR
August 13, 2018
RAWALPINDI (92 News) – Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa will initiate simultaneous plantation of two million trees across Pakistan on Monday here. "Pakistan Army joins National Tree Plantation Campaign. COAS will initiate simultaneous plantation of two million trees today across the country under army arrangements with planned target of 10 million trees during this monsoon," Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor tweeted. "Campaign is named 'Sarsabz o Shadab Pakistan," he further said. Earlier in previous tenure of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) rule, the government claiming to have planted a billion trees across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to a report by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), more than 13,000 private tree nurseries had been established across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) under PTI's Billion Tree Tsunami project.