Pak Punjab CM calls for climate diplomacy over stubble burning

Jaishankar will lead the Indian delegation for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Heads of Government on October 15-16.

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A farm worker burns stubble after harvesting of paddy crop at a village near Patiala. (PTI Photo)

Ahead of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s proposed visit to Islamabad next week, Pakistan’s Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif Wednesday called for ‘climate diplomacy’ with India to combat smog during the winter months from October to February due to the stubble burning in India’s Punjab.

“We should talk to them, this is called climate diplomacy. We should do it with India,” said Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif. She said that because of the direction of the wind, the smog is carried from India’s Punjab to Pakistan and the two nations needed to coordinate actions to counter this issue.

“Even if we do something here, but from Indian Punjab, because of the direction of the wind, the stubble burning brings the smog to this side,” she said.

Jaishankar will lead the Indian delegation for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Heads of Government on October 15-16.

Shubhajit Roy

Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More

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