The president speaking on the ‘World Earth Day’ has said, ‘I am pleased to learn that Pakistanis would be joining the international community in what is the largest environmental event in the world today’. Then he talked of climate change and recurring droughts, massive food shortages, potential starvation, floods and other natural calamities.
While he was talking of saving mother earth, his party (PPP) was coming out with full page advertisements lamenting that Benazir’s agreements for more IPPs had been cancelled. More IPPs, burning more oil is not what will save the earth. Benazir should not have rejected the Kalabagh dam which would have given us pollution free power.
I wonder if the president can see the huge contradiction between his professed love for mother earth and what his PPP is saying, and what, in fact, he himself has often said.
ENGR KHURSHID ANWER
Lahore
