Pak intends to play major role to prevent climate change: PM

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has stated that Pakistan intends to play its due role to prevent the climate change that has become a real critical challenge for the world. “In the present age, environmental changes have affected our lives adversely.  “Our very existence on this earth will be in danger if we did not counter serious issues like dry seasons lasting for years, drought-like conditions in vast swathes of territory, continuous rains for months, flash-floods, thunder storms, rising temperature of the world and melting glaciers.  “This is the reason why ‘Climate Change’ has been made the topic of World Tourism Day”, Gilani said in a message on the occasion of World Tourism Day being observed on September 27. The World Tourism Day is being observed globally with a strong conviction to prevent the climate change that has become a real critical challenge for the world.

“To stop this change, is the need of the hour and Pakistan intends to play its due role in this regard”, the Prime Minister added. He said when tourist industry grows; the economy of the country grows consequently. Almost one billion tourists visited countries as a part of tourism last year and according to a survey this number is likely to rise to 1.5 billion during the next ten years.