Ministry of Environment (Pakistan)

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Biodiversity Fauna and Flora Wildflowers Trees Molluscs Ants Odonates Butterflies Moths Spiders Crustaceans Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Mammals Endangered species
Conservation Protected areas National parks Game reserves Wildlife sanctuaries Wetlands sites Protected and reserved forests of Pakistan Biosphere reserves of Pakistan List of marine protected areas of Pakistan
Organizations National Ministry of Environment (Pakistan) Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency Dhodial Pheasantry Zoological Survey Department of Pakistan Sindh Wildlife Department Punjab Wildlife Department Khyber Pakhtukhwa Wildlife Department Baluchistan Wildlife Department Gilgit Baltistan Wildlife Department Himalayan Wildlife Foundation National Institute of Oceanography (Pakistan) International CITES IUCN WSPA WWF Snow Leopard Trust
Related topics Ecoregions Forestry Fishing Agriculture Tourism Botanical and Zoological gardens Environmental issues
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Politics of Pakistan


Federal government Constitution of Pakistan Previous constitutions:1956 1962 1973 Annex (written 1949, incorporated 1985) Amendments Law Human rights Pakistan Penal Code Law enforcement
Parliament legislature Senate (Upper House) Chairman: Yousaf Raza Gillani Deputy Chairman: Mirza Muhammad Afridi (PTI) Leader of the House: Ishaq Dar (PML(N)) Opposition leader: Shahzad Waseem (PTI) National Assembly (Lower House) Leader of the House: Shehbaz Sharif (PML(N)) Speaker: Ayaz Sadiq (PML(N)) Deputy speaker: Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah (PPP) Leader of the Opposition: Omar Ayub Khan
Executive President of Pakistan: Asif Ali Zardari (PPP) List of presidents of Pakistan Prime Minister of Pakistan: Shahbaz Sharif (PML-N) List of prime ministers of Pakistan Cabinet of Pakistan Cabinet secretary
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The Ministry of Environment (or MoE), was a Cabinet-level ministry of Government of Pakistan, tasked and primarily responsible for planning, coordinating, promoting, protecting and overseeing the policy implementation of government sanctioned environmental and forestry programmes in the country. Its government activities included conservation, survey of fauna, flora, forestry, wildlife (including Wildflowers); protection and prevention of pollution control, afforestation, and land degradation mitigation. The MoE was also responsible for administrating and establishing the National Parks of Pakistan.

The ministerial department or MoE was administrated by the Environment Minister of Pakistan who was also a leading member of cabinet of Prime minister of Pakistan.

The MoE had also contained the separate and autonomous government department— Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pakistan EPA). The EPA is a leading department of the MoE, usually tasked to handle the air pollution, radioactive waste management, promotion of civilian usage of environmental isotopes, while it also has the responsible to implementing and enforcing the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act in the country.

Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency was an attached department of the Ministry of Environment and responsible to implement the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997 in the country. An Act to provide for the protection, conservation, rehabilitation and improvement of environment, for the prevention and control of pollution, and promotion of sustainable development. Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency also provides all kind of technical assistance to the Ministry of Environment for formulation of environment policy and programmes.