Lahore ripped off 70pc green cover in last decade

27 March, 2019

Islamabad (Business Recorder): Adviser to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said Lahore city has been ripped off 70 percent of its green cover in the last decade as the city of garden has turned into a concrete giant in name of development

He expressed his views during the Air Quality Asia (AQA) Conference organized on the parliamentary role in meeting the clean air challenge.

Amin said that it was high to realize the level of pollution we were bearing with, however vehicular emissions left at large, unrestrained industrialization and brick kilns were spewing dark emissions were the major perpetrators of bad quality air. Read more