26 | April | 2016 | Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)

Pakistan Press Foundation

Daily Archives: April 26, 2016

Wildlife dept not doing enough to curb illegal trade

Pakistan Press Foundation

KARACHI: Illegal wildlife trade continues unabated in the city as the wildlife department seems to lack the ‘muscles’ needed to take action against such activities, it emerged on Monday. The trade involves spiny-tailed lizards (locally called Sandha) and marine turtles, both species protected under the law; one was found on sale in Saddar while the […]


In memory: Literati pay homage to late Agha Saleem

Pakistan Press Foundation

HYDERABAD: Writers, intellectuals and poets paid tribute to the late Sindh writer Agha Saleem for his literary services on Sunday. They also called upon the universities to initiate PhD research programmes on the scholar. “We can start at least 10 PhD [programmes] on the different facets of his works,” said former Sindh University vice-chancellor Ghulam […]


Climate change — and Pakistan

Pakistan Press Foundation

It is a race against time and time is running out fast. There may be those who still question that climate change is caused by human activity, but nobody anywhere in the world can deny that climate change is upon us, and its effects are going to vary from the merely inconvenient to the catastrophic […]


PTV — in need of an overhaul

Pakistan Press Foundation

In the past 15 years or so, the electronic media in the country has seen exponential growth with countless TV channels now gracing the airwaves. The programming on the state-run PTV, however, appears to be unaffected by these changes and we continue to witness the same poor production quality, which has not changed in years. […]


Panama Leaks and politics

Pakistan Press Foundation

The best approach to understand issues and seek solutions to problems, is scientific, analytical thinking and objectivity that helps focus on issues dispassionately- without involving personal prejudices and biases. In context of the Panama revelations and the impact it had world-wide, there is no need for anyone getting personal and showing a distasteful behavior. It […]


Pakistan Forest Institute golden jubilee marked

Pakistan Press Foundation

KP CM for indigenous solutions to global warming, climate change PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Monday asked the environmentalists to play a role in development of the province by focusing on the promotion of indigenous research to find out local, cost-effective and sustainable solutions to the environmental challenges being faced by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This […]


Lahore College for Women: UNESCO to help develop green campus

Pakistan Press Foundation

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation will help the Lahore College for Women University to develop its premises into a green campus under a United Nations Environment Programme Project. The announcement came in a seminar on Monday by climatologist and hydrologist Shahbaz Khan. He is the Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific […]