KOHAT: Speakers at a seminar on climate crisis held here on Friday underscored the need for enhanced tree plantations and the community engagement to tackle the climate change challenge.

On the occasion, Mr Jehanzeb, president of an association of young volunteers, which arranged the seminar, emphasised the need for collective efforts to combat climate-related issues.

Ismail Khalid, a journalist, shared insights into the media’s role in raising awareness about the climate crisis.

He stressed the importance of the media’s role in holding the authorities accountable if they shirked from their responsibility to take effective steps for tackling the grave issue.

The speakers underscored the role of community engagement in making the tree plantation drives a success.

The participants engaged in interactive discussions, sharing perspectives on how to mitigate the climate crisis at the community level.

After the seminar, additional assistant commissioner Saad Munir inaugurated a tree plantation drive. He also distributed saplings among teachers for planting them in their educational institutions.

ARRESTED: The KDA and Gumbat police arrested six cattle thieves and recovered two cows and three rams from them the other day.

Gumbat police SHO Riaz Khan said on Friday that a complaint had been received about the theft of two expensive cows, which had been stolen from Khushalgarh area on the bank of the Indus River a few days ago.

He said the police after registering an FIR started a search and recovered the cows and arrested four thieves, including Mohammad Saeed, Fida Khan, belonging to Jand area of Punjab across the Indus, and Niaz and Hameedullah of Togh Bala area of Kohat.

SHO KDA police station Romanullah said it had been reported to them that three costly rams had been stolen from close to the divisional hospital.

He said the police seized three lambs and arrested two thieves, identified as Abdullah and Mohammad Gul, residents of Ghulam Banda.

The cows and rams were roughly priced at Rs1.2 million, the police said.

Meanwhile, four men riding two motorcycles deprived one Bilal of his mobile phone worth Rs72,000 in the jurisdiction of the Saddar police station.

The police said it was the same gang that had been snatching motorcycles and cash from people at gunpoint.

Published in Dawn, April 6th, 2024