Massive fire destroys forestland along Kokhrapar border with India

UMERKOT: A devastating fire engulfed the Kokhrapar, Somoon Samoon and other areas on the India-Pakistan border in an arid region of Sindh’s Umerkot district, reducing over 20 square kilometers of forestland to ashes.

The inferno, which started at approximately 8am, raged until 6pm, leaving behind destruction, despair, and significant loss of wildlife, livestock, livelihoods and fodder, plants, trees and bushes.

Trees, many over a century old, were completely destroyed, along with the habitat of countless birds...