Pakistan’s current ecological circumstances are a complicated tapestry created by millennia of natural evolution, colonial meddling, and contemporary industrialization. The nation’s natural ecology is scarred by past exploitation and current mismanagement.
South Asia’s ecology bears the permanent scars of colonialism. Pakistan is not an exception to the rule that colonialism has devastated many nations’ ecosystems.
Economic motivations dominated British colonial rule in India, which included modern-day Pakistan. The methodical exploitation of natural resources resulted from this. Large-scale forest clearing was done to provide room for plantations and infrastructure improvements like railroads, which made it easier to export raw commodities to Britain.
