Pakistan, March 20 -- Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday launched the 2025 Spring Tree Plantation Drive here to plant around 41.7 million saplings across the country, urging the entire nation's participation to avert climate change impacts and address many diseases.

The prime minister, who launched the campaign by planting a Chir Pine sapling on the lawn of the Prime Minister's House as part of the Up-Scaling of Green Pakistan Program, said that the plantation would be made across four provinces, as well as Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), and Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK).

Under the campaign, 12.870 million saplings will be planted in Punjab, 10 million in Sindh, 2.633 million in KP, 2.062 million in Balochistan, 10.147 millio...