Islamabad, November 21, 2021 (PPI-OT):Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam says the government has completed the cadastral mapping of the state land. Briefing media persons in Islamabad today, he said the government is determined to recover the state land from illegal occupants.

He said the total area of forest land in Pakistan is around 30,000 square kilometers and around 700,000 acres of forest land is under illegal occupation. Malik Amin Aslam said 10,000 acres out of 15,000 forest land in Shaheed Benazirabad has been illegally occupied, which makes 70 percent of the total forest land of the district.

He said in Takht pari area of Rawalpindi, 755 acres out of 2,200 acres forest land have been illegally occupied, which makes 34 percent of the total land. He said Loi Bher forest comprises 1,079 acres of which 629 acres are under illegal occupation. Malik Amin Aslam said the Survey of Pakistan covered every inch of the state land, while compiling the cadastral map of the country. He said action will be taken against the illegal occupants of the state land. Malik Amin Aslam said forest cover of Pakistan can be enhanced upto five to seven percent if illegally occupied forest land is recovered.

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