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| 'Timber mafia' funding militancy in FATA: minister |
| 2008-07-28 |
| The 'timber mafia' is responsible for funding militancy in the NWFP and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and the provincial government is devising a strategy to crack down on the covert industry, Environment Minister Hameedullah Jan Afridi said on Sunday. Dawn News quoted the minister as saying that Pakistan was suffering annual losses of Rs 65 billion due to environmental degradation and deforestation. Earlier, officials of the Environmental Protection Agency briefed the minister on the agency's projects and forestation efforts in various parts of the province. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Send the Sierra Club over there to put them in their place. |
| Posted by: Jirt Prince of the Lichtensteiners4128 2008-07-28 11:54 |
| #2 Financing terrorism with timber has another downside. Lumber ships have large open cargo holds that can easily conceal missiles, too. Read it in a Clive Cussler novel so it must be true;) |
| Posted by: Danielle 2008-07-28 11:53 |
| #1 You know, if insurgencies in the frontier agencies and parts of the Philippines (I seem to remember Richard Fernandez going on about Marco-era Communists living off of timber poaching) are financing with pirated lumber, then doesn't that some of the air out of the narco-guerilla "we've gotta legalize the drug trade" panic? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-07-28 11:15 |