FOREST DESTRUCTION

 
Published: Saturday 30 September 2000

Pakistan's Sindh forest department officials are destroying the green cover of the province, according to the Sindh Green Development Organisation. Officials of the forest department in collaboration with forest smugglers have looted 20,234 hectares of forest worth Rs 7 billion in Rajri, Shaghar, Manjhand, Unnerpur, Budhapur, Petaro, Sukhpur and Khipro.

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