Administrator of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Laeeq Ahmed and civil society organisation members also planted trees.
The tree plantation campaign is being launched under the KMC.
Speaking to the participants of the ceremony, the LG minister said that over 100,000 environment-friendly and indigenous plants would be used in the tree plantation campaign, adding that the KMC’s parks department had developed some 70,000 indigenous saplings in their own nurseries, while memorandums of understanding had also been signed with civil society organisations to seek their cooperation in making Karachi a green city.
The provincial minister said the forest department had launched various projects in the province, including Green Sindh, Urban Forest and Mangroves Project, on directives of PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.
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