Staff Reporter
Peshawar
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Forests, Wildlife and Environmental Minister Sayed Muhammad Ishtiaq Urmar said the initiation of scores of uplift projects; schemes and other people-welfare steps by the provincial government had frustrated the opposition. Talking to the media here, the minister said it was the collective responsibility of the elected people to keep the province clean and green. He said the trees were necessary for human life and forests being our national asset must be protected and preserved for coming generations. Besides the government, he said, people from all fields of life should play their role in containing illegal logging so that a better, secured and people-friendly environment could be provided to the next generations.