LAHORE (The Thursday Times) — Lahore ko Haftay ke roz ek baar phir duniya ka aaloda tareen shehar qarar diya gaya, halanke ek roz qabl hawa aur boonda baandi se aarzi relief mila tha. Isi dauran Punjab ne faslon ki baqiyat jalane ke khilaf crackdown mazeed wasee kar diya hai, jise hukkam khitte mein mausam-e-sarma ki smog ki bari wajah qarar dete hain.
Haftay ki subah sawere shehar ka air quality index 244 tak pahunch gaya, jo monitoring data ke mutabiq “intehai ghair sehat bakhsh” darje mein aata hai. Shehar ke mukhtalif hisson mein readings mein numayan farq raha. Multan Road par index 500 record kiya gaya, jabke Canal Road, Allama Iqbal Town aur Gulberg mein yeh 270 ke lag bhag ya is se zyada raha.
Is reading ke sath Lahore ek baar phir aalmi fehrist mein sar-e-fehrist aa gaya, jabke ek roz qabl barish aur hawa ne shehar ki fiza ko aarzi taur par saaf kar diya tha aur Delhi Lahore ko peeche chhor kar duniya ka aaloda tareen shehar ban gaya tha.
Punjab ke Mehkama-e-Tahaffuz-e-Mahauliyat o Mausmiyati Tabdeeli ki sarbarah Silwat Saeed ne bataya ke soobe ne is saal 750 ahlkaron par mushtamil Environmental Protection Force tashkeel di hai, jo chawal ki kasht wale bare azla mein 67 rapid response units mein munazzam hai. Hukkam ke mutabiq yeh Pakistan mein aalodgi ke khilaf kaam karne wali pehli makhsoos force hai. Is ki teams ka hadaf ittila milne ke 10 se 15 minute ke andar khet mein lagi aag tak pahunchna hai, aur yeh dhaan ke ilaqon mein gasht kar ke aag lagane ke aasaar par bhi nazar rakhti hain.
Mehkame ke mutabiq is hafte sirf 24 ghanton ke dauran use Punjab bhar se kheton mein aag lagne ki 679 ittilaat mausool hueen, jin mein se 650 aagein bujha di gayin. “Hamein mutaddid zaraye se shikayat mausool hoti hain aur hum kam se kam waqt mein un par karrawai karte hain,” force ke Deputy Director Ashfaq Hussain ne kaha.
Mehkama-e-Zaraat Punjab ke Assistant Director Muhammad Farooq ne bataya ke fasal ki baqiyat jalane wale kisanon par fi acre 15 hazar rupay jurmana aaid kiya jata hai. Jurmana ada na karne walon ke khilaf muqadma chalaya ja sakta hai aur unhein chhe maah tak qaid ho sakti hai. Hukumat ne 10 hazar se zaid super seeders bhi taqseem kiye hain, jin ki madad se kisan chawal ki baqiyat mein barah-e-raast gandum kasht kar sakte hain, aur un ki 60 feesad laagat hukumat ne ada ki hai.
Khitte ke kisan aam taur par October mein fasal ki katai ke baad kheton ko gandum ke liye jald khali karne ki gharz se chawal ki baqiyat ko aag laga dete hain. Yeh dhuan sanati ikhraj, gariyon ke dhuen aur taameerati gard ke sath mil kar sard mausam ki fiza mein thehar jata hai aur aalodgi ko khatarnak had tak pahuncha deta hai.
Punjab ke hukkam ka kehna hai ke yeh muhim kargar sabit ho rahi hai. Satellites ne is season mein ab tak Pakistan aur Bharat mein jalaye gaye raqbe ko tareekhi ausat se kam paya hai. Punjab ke Mehkama-e-Tahaffuz-e-Mahauliyat ke Director General Abdullah Nayyar ki janib se pesh kiye gaye Mehkama-e-Sehat ke aadad o shumar ke mutabiq October mein smog se mutalliq gale ki takaleef ke baais aspatalon mein dakhle guzishta saal ki isi muddat ke 69 feesad rahe.
Bohat se shehriyon ka kehna hai ke unhein abhi tak koi farq mehsoos nahin hua, aur haaliya dinon mein Lahore ke aspatalon ki rahdariyan saans ke masail mein mubtala mareezon se bhari rahin. Subsidy wale super seeder par muntaqil hone wale ek kisan ne bataya ke un ki gandum ki paidawar barh gayi hai, taham deegar kisan ab bhi aag lagane ko khet saaf karne ka sab se sasta aur tez tareen tareeqa samajhte hain.
Haaliya barson mein Pakistan aur Bharat ek doosre par fiza ko aaloda karne ka ilzam lagate rahe hain. Silwat Saeed ne kaha ke yeh challenge donon mumalik ke liye bohat bara hai aur Pakistan ne bain-ul-aqwami forums par Bharti hukkam ke samne yeh maamla uthaya hai.
