Pakistan's Environment Minister Syed Wajid Hussain Bokhari has flown to India to attend an international conference on sustainable development and climate change organized by an international NGO, The Energy and Research Institute (TERI), said an official statement. Prominent world figures will attend this conference. The minister said Pakistan and India will work jointly to improve environmental conditions in South Asia. He said degradation of environmental conditions including high level of carbon in atmosphere, melting of glaciers due to global warming, bad sanitation and pollution were affecting environment of this region. "These are common problems, which must be resolved by chalking out joint strategy to provide clean environment to our children," he said adding that cooperation from industrialized states will also be sought to control the pollutants in the atmosphere. The minister said Pakistan has done useful and an effective work in the field and it would share it with other countries including South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation or SAARC countries. Bokhari would also meet the Indian Minister for Environment and discuss ways and means on how to prevent degradation of environment in South Asia. Bokhari said a programme has been finalized to plant 86 million saplings during the next three years in Pakistan.
