PESHAWAR, Feb 9: Provincial Environment and Forests Minister Shah Raz Khan on Friday launched the spring tree plantation campaign by planting a sapling of magnolia on the lawns of the forest department.

Addressing the ceremony held to mark the occasion, he said that more than 22.691 million saplings would be planted across the province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and another 5 million would be distributed among the general public and non-governmental organisations free of cost.

The minister asked the farmers, students, researchers, NGOs, local governments and officers of the forests department to take part in the campaign to help eradicate environmental pollution.—PPI