Azad Kashmir mulling ban on forest cutting for next 10 years
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27/05/2000
The AJK government was considering to declare the forest reserved for ten years and to introduce a law to stop the fast depleting forest.Senior minister AJK Mohammed Ishaq Zaffar who is also the minister of forest, AJK Logging and Saw Mills corporation in a meeting with forest department officers ,forest guard and foresters in district Bagh, said the matter of ban of the commercial cutting of forests and its preservation for ten years would be taken up with the federal government .