LAHORE :The security concerns are alarming nationwide as citizens face increasing threats in their personal and professional lives with the loss of life and property.In a shocking turn of events,.
LAHORE: The Parks & Horticulture Authority (PHA) has decided to compile data of all the trees and saplings it owns in its controlled areas to assess the Lahore’s actual requirement and the authority’s initiatives to improve the situation and overcome related issues.
“We have no reliable data related to total number of saplings, plants/trees we have or lost in the Punjab capital. However, we have not felled even a single tree in Lahore during the last two years or so,” PHA Director General Jawad Qureshi told Dawn on Sunday.
“I also confirm that we have added one million plants/trees to the city’s ecosystem,” he claimed.
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Smart lockdown imposed in 34 Lahore, Sialkot, and Rawalpindi neighbourhoods
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The Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department has imposed a lockdown in 34 neighbourhoods in Sialkot, Rawalpindi and Lahore after new cases of coronavirus were reported. There has been a constant increase in the positivity percentage of COVID-19 cases in Punjab during the last two weeks which poses an imminent threat to the public, a notification said.
Given the surge in the cases, the government has issued the following orders: