Govt’s green initiatives to help curb desertification, droughts June 18, 2021 Islamabad : Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam on Thursday said that Pakistan is grappled with growing threat of expanding desertification for the last many years, which has exacerbated the country’s food insecurity, poverty, hunger levels and biodiversity loss. “But, various green initiatives have already been rolled out in various parts of the country as a part of the Prime Minister Imran Khan’s world-acclaimed green agenda to combat desertification risk, which is devouring fertile lands resulting in gradual damage to the agricultural lands and loss of gains in food security, hunger, mal-nutrition and biodiversity areas,” the PM’s aide highlighted in a statement issued on occasion of the UN’s World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, marked every year on June 17.