{"id":59642,"date":"2020-01-11T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=59642"},"modified":"2020-01-21T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:32:12","slug":"district-admin-launches-crackdown-forest-offenders-dir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/district-admin-launches-crackdown-forest-offenders-dir.html","title":{"rendered":"District admin launches crackdown on forest offenders in Dir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dir: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Upper Dir Khalid Iqbal Khattak recently announced that the district administration had filed cases against over 100 individuals for their alleged involvement in the cutting of trees in the forests located in the Kumrat and Charkom areas, according to news sources.<\/p>\n<p>DC Khattak made this announcement during a press briefing and also stated that most of the accused had already been taken into custody. He revealed that cases had been lodged against 71 offenders for illegally cutting a large number of trees; out of which 60 people are now in police custody.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-cm-announces-pkr-900mn-uplift-package-for-upper-dir.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KP CM announces PKR 900mn uplift package for Upper Dir<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DC Dir said that the police was making an effort to capture the remaining offenders. Additionally, he revealed that six chainsaws had also been confiscated in the Charkom locale during the arrests of the aforementioned 60 alleged offenders. The DC said that the use of chainsaws was banned by the district administration, as these machines had the capacity to cut down trees faster than more conventional methods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/chainsaw-usage-banned-south-waziristan-protect-forests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chainsaw usage banned in South Waziristan to protect forests<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, he further informed that in this instance a lot of trees had already been felled before the accused could be apprehended, with about 219 trees estimated to have been cut down in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kumrat-festival-upper-dir-begin-tomorrow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kumrat<\/a> area alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dir: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Upper Dir Khalid Iqbal Khattak recently announced that the district administration had filed cases against over 100 individuals for their alleged involvement in the cutting of trees in the forests located in the Kumrat and Charkom areas, according to news sources. DC Khattak made this announcement during a press briefing and also stated that most of the accused had already been taken into custody. He revealed that cases had been lodged against 71 offenders for illegally cutting a large number of trees; out of which 60 people are now in police custody. Read:&nbsp;KP CM announces PKR 900mn uplift package for Upper Dir DC Dir said that the police was making an effort to capture the remaining offenders. Additionally, he revealed that six chainsaws had also been confiscated in the Charkom locale during the arrests of the aforementioned 60 alleged offenders. The DC said that the use of chainsaws was banned by the district administration, as these machines had the capacity to cut down trees faster than more conventional methods. Read:&nbsp;Chainsaw usage banned in South Waziristan to protect forests Unfortunately, he further informed that in this instance a lot of trees had already been felled before the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":39734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[14915,15023],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-details-on-district-admin-launches-crackdown-on-forest-offenders-in-dir","9":"tag-slider","10":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>District admin launches crackdown on forest offenders in Dir - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dir: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Upper Dir Khalid Iqbal Khattak recently announced that the district administration had filed cases against over 100\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/district-admin-launches-crackdown-forest-offenders-dir.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"District admin launches crackdown on forest offenders in Dir - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dir: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Upper Dir Khalid Iqbal Khattak recently announced that the district administration had filed cases against over 100\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/district-admin-launches-crackdown-forest-offenders-dir.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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