Islamabad,
Nov 22: Dazed by the toxic haze and consequent criticism, Punjab Chief
Minister Shehbaz Sharif has penned a letter to his Indian counterpart Amarinder
Singh to monitor overall situation and to curtail paddy straw’s burning in the
region, the Dunya News has reported.
Sharif has offered Singh to jointly tackle the environmental
issue. “You are aware that since the last year, the people of both
Indian and Pakistani Punjab are facing the problem of smog during months of
October and November. This year the problem has become more aggravated and
widespread,” the letter read, which was written to Mr Amarinder Singh on Sunday. While apprising hefty losses inflicted by smoggy weather on
humans and environment, Sharif invited Singh for collective regional
cooperation. “I firmly believe that it is in the interest of people of the
both Punjabs to make a collective efforts towards identifying technologies and
business methods that may eliminate the need to burn rice-stubble and help
control smog formation”.The spokesperson of Indian Punjab stated that Singh was yet to receive the letter from his counterpart in Pakistan's Punjab. He will reply to it (letter) at a suitable time, he added. It has become matter of routine that toxic haze cripples daily-life activities in large swathes of both Pakistan and Indian Punjabs during month of October and November with air quality plummeting to new low every year. UNI
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