Title Pakistan Forest Digest Issue 01- A4 - Pakistan Research Group

SDPISustainable Development Policy Institutechanges world over are a challengefor the whole world. He said forkeeping the environment clean weneed to stop illegal cutting of trees,arrange proper disposal of wastesand grow more and more trees.The minister gave “greenjournalist” awards to thejournalists who wrote best articleson environment. First award wasgiven to Adil Saeed,second to MohammadFayyaz, and the third toMohammad Ali.Seminar and declamation contest held at forest instituteStudents made speeches in Urdu and English on environment issuesDaily Mashriq Peshawar, June 06, 2010Peshawar (Campus Reporter)Pakistan Forest Institute,University campus maintained itstradition of holding seminar anddeclamation contest on theoccasion of World EnvironmentDay. Students of PFI institutesfrom all over the countryparticipated in this seminar.Conservator forest Dr AayazKhattak was the chief guest.Director of the institute Asif Jah,assistant professor Memoona andmany students attended thefunction. Senior forest officerTanvir Ahmed presided over theseminar. Students deliveredspeeches in Urdu and Englishwhile students of PFI ModelSchools presented a tableau. InUrdu declamation contest studentSudhir Ahmed Mughal stood first,Awais Ahmed and FarrukhNadeem from Azad Kashmir stoodsecond and third respectively. InEnglish declamation contest SadafRafiq from Sindh stood first whileRizwan Khan and Gohar Rehmanfrom Khyber Pakhtunkhwa stoodsecond and third.Peach and plum orchard destroyed by mysterious diseaseFarmers suffer huge losses; Prime Minister’s package fails to provide relief tofarmers; During the MMA government loans were being given at low mark uprate. Present government has stopped that scheme; Press conference by KhanSahibDaily Mashriq, Peshawar, June 09, 2010Peshawar (correspondent) HajiKhan Sahib a resident of Armararea of Peshawar has said in apress conference that only big landowners are benefiting from theprime minister’s package. Smallfarmers did not get any relief.During the past two years peachand plum have been attacked by amysterious disease destroying fruitworth millions of rupees.Addressing a press conference inPeshawar Press Club he said thatMalakand Division has sufferedserious losses due to the ongoingwave of terrorism and now themilitary operation has destroyedour agriculture. He said that theMMA government has launched ascheme to give loans to farmers ata very low mark up. But the newgovernment has dumped thescheme. He demanded that reliefshould be provided to smallfarmers under the prime minister’spackage. He also demanded thatthe cause of strange disease inpeach and plum fruit orchardsshould be investigated. Hethreatened to launch a protestmovement if his demands were notfulfilled.Pakistan Forest Digest Vol. 1, No. 1, April – June, 2010