The green dream
though environment-related issues and crises have been repeatedly highlighted by the media in Pakistan, not much has been done to improve the situation. And it is unlikely that the forthcoming elections in the country will make any difference. Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party's manifesto, which is the most articulate on the subject, contains an entire page about its environmental programme. Non-governmental organisations in Pakistan have off late praised Bhutto's clear elaboration of her agenda with respect to other related sectors such as health, agriculture and industry. But her political rivals like Imran Khan (Tehreek-e-Insaaf party) and Nawaz Sharif (Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) party) seem to have devoted a paragraph to the subject, to
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