This write-up serves as a red alert to all those who breathe and need free oxygen that nature supplies them. Sooner rather than later, the now-thin pine forest in Maknial District Haripur, which serves as nature’s oxygen factory, will be bombed and destroyed until the last tree, after necessary legal manipulations and loopholes that are being created in the bylaws for the advantage of the builder and timber mafia to be used to their legal advantage.
Shockingly, the Galiyat Development Authority, with properly enacted bylaws for the preservation and protection of nature and the environment, particularly the pine forest, is soon going to relinquish its charge to the provincial government where influential builders have already procured large swathes of land in the area. With it, the forest will be replaced with a jungle of concrete, replicating the service already done to other tourist areas by our own corrupt government, by chopping off its own hands and giving them to destroyers and looters to rob the country of its natural resources. There could be no more serious instance of ingratitude to the Creator than not protecting the gifts of nature with which Pakistan is blessed.
I would personally request the Honourable Azam Khan, as Chief Minister of KP, to ensure the Galiyat Development Authority is strengthened, and its bylaws are not allowed to be either tampered with or abolished, opening floodgates to this environmental disaster that no foreign aid can help to undo. One can hope that we rise above our personal ego and interests and think of tomorrow and our own children who have the right to live on this land as free citizens of a free country. Blaming others and trying to prove ourselves right is not the answer to our problems until we put our acts together.
I will passionately appeal to the Pakistani Army for whom no war is more sacred than protecting the nature for our children and all all other passionate environmentalists and green activists to rise to the occasion and avert this unfortunate environmental disaster, particularly Dr. Adil Zarif and his like-minded friends across Pakistan. Long Live Pakistan! Always Available For Sale To The Highest Bidders. 🇵🇰