NOTE: This article was written before the recent implementation of the ban.
I want to thank some lady Parliamentarians. Yes I am being gender biased by making a distinction here but deliberately so. Kudos to Senator Saeeda Iqbal and MNA Maryam Aurangzeb for the spunk they have shown in getting the order of former PM, Raja Pervez Ashraf of removal of ban on timber movement from Gilgit-Baltistan reversed. Continue reading “Ladies try to rescue our threatened forests, but timber mafia still active! By: Afia Salam, Member of IUCN CEC”