Qayam-e-Pakistan se qabal bargad ke darkhton ki katai
Qayam-e-Pakistan se qabal bargad ke darkhton ki katai
#crime #trees #bakhabarsavera #arynews
#crime #trees #bakhabarsavera #arynews
Transcript
00:00 Let's move ahead and share some other topics.
00:04 Sadaf, it is said that if you kill nature,
00:09 then it is also a way of killing humanity.
00:13 When a tree falls, it is not just a tree,
00:16 but it is a habitat of many birds.
00:20 And it is a means of cleaning the environment for humans.
00:24 And especially when that tree is many years old,
00:27 - 100 years old. - 100 years old.
00:30 - We are talking about the bargat tree. - Yes.
00:31 And all these old trees are getting extinct.
00:37 And the older they are, the more they become a heritage.
00:44 When you go to other countries, we take pictures.
00:47 Even if you go to your own country,
00:50 there is a very old heritage there.
00:53 It has details written on it.
00:54 We take pictures with it.
00:57 In our city, there were 67 trees like this.
01:01 They were identified.
01:02 These are old trees. They will not be touched.
01:05 They will be left in their place.
01:07 But what happened was, the police club was to be built.
01:10 And because of that, the tree was cut down.
01:12 And this tree is from the area of Karachi, Clifton.
01:15 100 years ago, it was planted there.
01:20 You can say that a tree was planted there.
01:23 Now the bargat tree has grown.
01:25 But did the government take action?
01:27 Yes, they did.
01:29 And they did it when it was already done.
01:34 - You can see it. - So sad.
01:36 It is a heartbreaking scene.
01:38 Especially in a country that has already experienced
01:42 a lot of pollution and global warming.
01:45 The tree was there for 100 years.
01:47 - It did not get affected. - It did not suffer.
01:50 It did not suffer the rains.
01:52 - It did not suffer the sun. - It did not suffer the weather.
01:54 And it did not give shade to many people.
01:55 - We cut it down. - So sad.
01:58 Our representative, Ishrat Khan, is with us.
02:01 Let us talk to her.
02:03 Ishrat, I welcome you to Bakhabar Savera. Good morning.
02:06 What is the matter?
02:07 When they came to cut the tree, no one stopped them.
02:10 And they cut it down.
02:12 Now that it is cut down and broken into pieces,
02:16 did anyone take notice of it?
02:19 Yes, good morning.
02:23 In Karachi, this is what happens.
02:26 Usually, the first thing is broken or cut down.
02:30 Then the action begins.
02:32 The tree of Bargat, as Sadaf said,
02:34 100 years old.
02:35 Sadaf, let me tell you that the tree of Bargat
02:38 is more than 1000 years old.
02:41 It finds its food on its own.
02:44 Even though it is more than 1000 years old,
02:47 the tree of Bargat does not have that value here.
02:51 If you look at it,
02:54 under the Cultural Preservation Act 1994,
02:59 it is considered a cultural heritage.
03:01 If the former commissioner of Karachi,
03:03 Ibtikhar Shalwani, in 2019,
03:05 had also declared the tree of Bargat
03:08 as a cultural and national heritage.
03:11 - Apart from that... - Ishrat, tell me one thing.
03:13 The question arises here,
03:15 when the other trees, including this tree,
03:17 were declared as national heritage,
03:20 whose responsibility was it to ensure that...
03:23 If someone had put up a signboard there,
03:25 or mentioned anything,
03:26 that its history is so old, it is a heritage,
03:29 you should not cut it down.
03:30 Whose responsibility was it?
03:32 Sadaf, their responsibility is
03:36 the responsibility of the Natural Heritage Department.
03:38 And they have taken action first.
03:41 The Minister of Conservation,
03:43 the Minister of Culture, Junaid Ali Shah,
03:45 he took action.
03:46 He said that within 48 hours,
03:50 whoever has cut down this tree,
03:52 should take action against them.
03:54 The responsible should be brought forward.
03:56 Especially those who have cut down the tree in front of the building,
03:59 the engineers and supervisors of the building,
04:02 should take action against them.
04:04 Along with that, they have also issued a petition
04:08 in the name of the Clifton Karachi SHO,
04:10 in which they have declared
04:11 under the 1994 section 18 of the Natural Heritage Act,
04:16 that whoever is the culprit,
04:20 should be arrested and an FIR should be filed against them.
04:24 Yes.
04:25 Okay, that is so sad.
04:27 I am feeling very sad.
04:28 And we talk about trees in our city,
04:31 when it is scorching hot,
04:32 and when you are standing in the bus,
04:34 then these trees provide you shade.
04:36 We have many trees.
04:38 And there are many trees.
04:39 There are many trees.
04:41 Now, feel that when you are very hot,
04:46 what will be the temperature under a tree?
04:48 And if you come out of the tree,
04:50 what will be the temperature?
04:52 You will feel that how important trees are.
04:54 And they provide oxygen.
04:56 They provide oxygen to you.
04:58 They keep your environment clean.
04:59 They play such an important role in your biodiversity.
05:02 So many birds live in it.
05:06 They have a nest.
05:07 They have a nest.
05:08 You wake up in the morning from their nest.
05:10 But...
05:11 That is how we are destroying the nature.
05:14 We are destroying our ecosystem, our nature.
05:18 And when we get a virus like COVID,
05:22 we ask where did it come from?
05:23 Why did it come?
05:24 Because we have increased the population.
05:27 And we say that we should inhabit the cities,
05:29 but we are damaging such heritage,
05:31 we are damaging our ecosystem.
05:33 There is such machinery in foreign countries
05:35 that if you have to shift a tree
05:37 because of a road construction
05:39 or a building construction,
05:41 they remove the whole tree with its roots very easily.
05:45 And then they go to another place and plant it.
05:48 They value it there.
05:49 Sometimes they don't even shift.
05:51 They leave the path and then construct.
05:53 You have seen many such pictures.
05:55 Because...
05:55 We think it is a very strange thing.
05:57 But think about how much they have researched about it
05:59 and they do a lot of research,
06:01 which is not done in our country.
06:02 And today I am very sorry about this.