City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal while saying that the city government is paying special attention to tree plantation has called for formulation of relevant laws to preserve and protect the existing trees with provisions for severe punishment, including prison terms and monetary fines, to tree-choppers. Mr Kamal was of the view that tree-chopping was forbidden in all big cities of the world and the culprits were sent to jail, but no such law existed in the case of Karachi. Speaking at a multi-stakeholders consultation seminar on