Opinion

Forest degradation in KP: Timber mafia and Environmental crisis under PTI/Shahzada Iftikhar Ud Din

By: Prince Iftikhar Ud Din, Ex-MNA from Chitral Since 2013, under successive PTI-led governments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the province’s forest resources have suffered alarming and unprecedented degradation. Independent observations and time-series analysis of satellite imagery, using open-source platforms such as Google Earth, indicate a consistent and widespread decline in forest cover across multiple regions […]