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The Hiking Trails of Margalla Hills

A few days back, I went for hiking on a trail of Margalla Hills. It was an exhausting fun and a very energetic experience but one thing that annoyed most of us was heaps of waste throughout the trail. The trail was another illustration of our unawareness towards the cleanliness and environment fortification. The entire trail was contaminated with water bottles, wrappers of different eatables & other waste stuff. Although the dustbins of CDA were placed clearly asking we to use them but most of us are too active for this.

This is not the case merely with the Hiking Trails of Margalla Hills but it is an issue associated with every tourist site in Pakistan. (Although it is the case every where in Pakistan but my focal point is primarily the tourism sites). Whether you visit our Northern Areas, Azad Kashmir or the famous tourism sites in cities like Lahore, Karachi, Bahawalpur or any other tourist spot you will find heaps of waste there. We might say that many of us are uneducated so we don’t understand the importance of hygiene & cleanliness but the point to ponder is that these attractive areas (which don’t remain attractive after our visits) are not easy to get to by underprivileged and illiterate people and mostly our middle and privileged class can afford such leisure and some times audacious trips. These people have of course attended different high class educational institution of this country where they have been taught these lessons from initial classes. Many of them are so sophisticated that they can’t even think of drinking any odd water other than mineral water or eating food from any low class hotel which according to them will be highly unhygienic and poisonous to health & they can easily get sick after using that stuff. But when these people visit any beautiful place, they forget all the sophistication and cleanliness to which they are normally associated and try their best to make these beautiful places as ugly as possible. I think we all have learned the half definition of our half faith. Cleanliness is just not restricted to our body and food and clothes and our life style but also includes over environment. Half faith is not only focused to our body but to everything and every place in this beautiful world.

Many of us can give many prolonged lectures that how Government should work in the tourism Industry but can any one of us want to play its part in the growth of this industry? Yes we can do it. At least we can keep these stunning places free of litter. At least we can keep a bag with us to dispose off our waste in it and then to dispose this bag at a proper place. I think it is not a hard task unless we could understand that our small wrapper is also contributing towards the pollution and dust of these beautiful areas. And moreover cleanliness is half of our faith. If we can make our half faith strong by some effortless tasks, I think it is not a costly contract. May Allah guide us.

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