A senior Pakistani citizen has sent thousands of saplings to Iraq with a purpose to provide shade to Arbaeen pilgrims.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n A senior Pakistani citizen has sent thousands of saplings to Iraq with a purpose to provide shade to Arbaeen pilgrims.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to Thomson Reuters, Mohammedi Durbar wants to plant nearly 50,000 trees along the entire 80-km pilgrimage route between Iraq’s Najaf and Karbala.\u00a0<\/p>\n Every year millions of people make the pilgrimage for Arbaeen. Mohammedi Durbar said that earlier he planted some trees in Najaf to see if they could thrive there and the test was a success.\u00a0<\/p>\n He added the first batch of 9,800 saplings of eight types of trees, up to eight months old, set off from Karachi by a truck on Friday, for their journey via Iran to Iraq.\u00a0<\/p>\n Durbar says the saplings will be well looked after on their journey with the truck stopping to ensure they get regular sunshine and water.\u00a0<\/p>\n He said the trees will spend the winter in a nursery in Baghdad, with the planting due to begin in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n Durbar estimates it will take three years to plant all of the trees at a cost of US $160,000 which he is paying. He is not sure if he will live to see pilgrims walking under his trees, but he knows he has found his calling after a lifetime in the industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI thank God, at this age, he has put me on the right path,\u201d he said. \u201cPartnership with nature is good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A senior Pakistani citizen has sent thousands of saplings to Iraq with a purpose to provide shade to Arbaeen pilgrims.\u00a0 A senior Pakistani citizen has sent thousands of saplings to Iraq with a purpose to provide shade to Arbaeen pilgrims.\u00a0 According to Thomson Reuters, Mohammedi Durbar wants to plant nearly 50,000 trees along the entire …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[275,1060,33,36,245],"class_list":["post-8331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-arbaeen","tag-citizens","tag-iraq","tag-pakistan","tag-pilgrims"],"yoast_head":"\n