Twitterati bash Punjab govt for cutting trees as Lahore smog persists
LAHORE: Pakistani Twitterati took to the micro-blogging site on Tuesday to slam Punjab government for cutting trees and causing smog to persist in the city.
With #Smog trending across the country on Twitter throughout the day, Twitterati slammed the government for not adhering to environmental policies in razing down trees for development projects such as the Orange Line.
Here are some infuriated tweets that followed the hashtag #Smog:-
#smog again attacked Lahore…
On other hand Government is cutting trees….
No one us thinking about the health of people…@ShkhRasheed pic.twitter.com/8a0JmUgpub— Anjum Iqbal – PTI (@AnjumIqbalPTI) October 30, 2017
Smog has arrived again with more intensity But government is killing trees.We need to #planttrees more more to get rid of it#Lahore #Smog
— Anum Hamid 🇵🇰 (@anum_07) October 30, 2017
Cut trees and built ORANGE TRAIN and let #smog everywhere. 👎🏼
IMRAN KHAN is mad making BILLION TREE project to protect environment… pic.twitter.com/rq2diMr0x4— Mmmm… (@Waqas_amjad) October 31, 2017
Warning:#Smog is just a little trailer of a long HORROR movie that will kill us all in the very early hour.#FixPollution #PlantTrees
— Dr Saqlain Shah (@DrSaqlainSh) October 30, 2017
Neighbours sharing #smog
Delhi/Lahore pic.twitter.com/0JYTNJzb8V— Syedih (@SyedIHusain) October 30, 2017
Thanks @GovtOfPunjab for cutting so many trees for your so called development projects! We’re dying !
#Smog #Lahore pic.twitter.com/LfqxHAJgji— HaJra.S (@Haju00) October 31, 2017
Plant trees 🌳 to prevent #smog
Its highly dangerous for health.
Plant #treeoflife 🌲— Maheen Goel (@MaheenGoel1) October 30, 2017
#Smog attack in #Lahore again.
Be safe. pic.twitter.com/gKqg4pBOHv— Qaisar Javed (@iamQaisarJaved) October 30, 2017
When we love burning rubbish, hate recycling v r ok with 0.4% of Punjab budget spent on #environment, v say hello 2 #smog again,every year
— Mehek Naeem (@meheknaeem) October 30, 2017
Plant trees, not bombs #smog
— Shoaib Raza (@BeeebaMunda) October 30, 2017
Its the present and future of #Lahore and #Punjab. We need activism and practical measures to fight #smog #airpollution. pic.twitter.com/Zk2qHwzXsd
— Muhammad Shoaib (@crpshoaib) October 31, 2017
The amount of pollution in this city is insane! Everyone’s coughing and sneezing. Down with a sore throat myself. #Lahore #Smog
— Ali Hafeez (@_alihafeez) October 30, 2017
Story first published: 31st October 2017
Article source: https://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2017/10/twitterati-bash-punjab-govt-for-cutting-trees-as-lahore-smog-persists/