Abstract
We have human-environment relations inseparable since the creation of mankind. Being a developing country, Pakistan is striving to make developments in all the respective fields which alleviate our hot raising socio- economic issues. But beside the infrastructural and economic growth our environment is also getting polluted leaving behind several drastic and severe environmental crises and one of the adverse repercussions is environmental pollution. The extreme effects of environmental pollution cannot be neglected and through proper and genuine laws and policies implementations we can cope up such issues. This study reveals the history of environmental laws and policies and their implementations in Pakistan. Pakistan has a wide range of laws related to environment but the practice shows there is some problem which hinders to achieve the desired targets. This study mainly includes two main factors of pollution; water pollution and air pollution and their effects on population of Pakistan. Air pollution is top of the list for environmental protection agencies all over the world and same in Pakistan which is acting as a destructive bump for the economic growth of Pakistan. Moreover abruptly elevating health issues are one of the consequences of such factors of environmental pollution. This study also debates some survey of World Health Organization (WHO) and Health institute of USA about the number of people affected by these issues all over the world and in Pakistan. At the end there are concluding remarks concerning the environmental laws and policies in Pakistan, its implementation, current environmental situation with some suggestions and recommendations.
Highlights
We dwell in a world that was enriched with astonishing natural sights and landscapes, but with every tick of the clock we considered certain changes which had to be made according to our requirements and needs
Air and water pollution are the hot raising environmental issues which are being faced by all the countries in the world but they are getting more and more intensified in the developing countries like Pakistan
There are signs that numerous large cities in Pakistan face the outmoded environmental problems such as lack of hygiene, chronic shortage of services, polluted air and water, disappearing open spaces, recreational areas and traffic congestion but newly emerging problems are adversely taxing the capacity of the surrounding ecosystem to sustain the growing population
Summary
We dwell in a world that was enriched with astonishing natural sights and landscapes, but with every tick of the clock we considered certain changes which had to be made according to our requirements and needs. Air and water pollution are the hot raising environmental issues which are being faced by all the countries in the world but they are getting more and more intensified in the developing countries like Pakistan. In Pakistan the environmental laws are inherited from the Mughals and British India It include all aspects of environmental laws like land use, canal irrigation, forestry, energy development, wildlife protection and noise pollution etc. Landscapes and climate, Pakistan is counting as one of the diversified countries of the world It extends on one side of the historic Indus River which flows through the mountain valley of Himalayas down to the Arabian Sea. Geology and soil of Pakistan can be seen in the Fig. 1
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