The Capital Development Authority has removed a plethora of overgrown paper mulberry trees around the flag monument leaving the greenbelt denuded.
The removed tree cover would be replaced by a “Movement Park” and massive plantation aimed at highlighting the struggle of the nation’s creation and the world’s largest human migration in recorded history.
Director Environment CDA Irfan Niazi told APP that the paper mulberry trees being cut would be replaced by some 10,000 saplings of native and fast-growing species of plants.
He said there would be murals highlighting the historic migration made during the partition of the sub-continent in 1947.
The purpose of developing such an artistic monument was to attract the Pakistani youth to understand their history of creation as the separate Muslim state of the sub-continent, he added.
Responding to a question, he said the massive plantation of some 10,000 saplings would make the entire flag monument spot fully green and thriving with nature and would also satiate the demands of environmentalists calling to revive the removed trees.
