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Pakistan’s priorities include managing its overall agricultural sector including water crisis, food security, and economic stability, given its high susceptibility to climate change impacts. In recent times, unpredictable w...
The freak hailstorm that swept across northern Pakistan on Wednesday, claiming lives and causing destruction, indicates how climate chaos is fast becoming our new normal. Social media was awash with videos showing ‘golf ball...
Pakistan's vital Indus River Delta, a historically fertile and ecologically rich region, is disappearing at an alarming rate, facing a catastrophic crisis driven by drastically reduced river flows, land erosion, and relentless s...
Water scarcity and environmental degradation are existential concerns for the people of Sindh. Until 1960, the Indus consistently claimed land from the sea as the outflow was an average of 94 million acres per feet annually. Now...
With the onset of summer, Rawalpindi is experiencing a critical water shortage, prompting private water tanker operators to significantly hike prices. Several private housing societies have begun water rationing, informing re...
Sindh Planning & Development and Energy Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has warned that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will part ways with the incumbent federal government if the controversy over the proposed irrigation c...
Tarbela is empty. Mangla is at dead level. This is what we were hearing most of the time when we tuned tin o any news outlet this winter. It’s an utter fact that climate change has badly disrupted the pattern of rainfall, and ...
Picture this: in certain areas of Lahore, people are forced to use water contaminated with sewage for drinking, cooking, and bathing. In the same city, luxury homes waste over 400 litres of clean water in a single car wash. This...
Islamabad:The International Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference, comprising former and current parliamentary speakers from 36 countries, including Cambodia and Colombia, visited a demonstration site showcasing cutting-edge inno...
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Wednesday reiterated its decisions regarding water distribution among provinces, stressing that the water apportionment was strictly in accordance with the 1991 Accor...