By: Malik Amin Aslam ISLAMABAD: This is with reference to your report of November 30 titled “Licence to kill: Senate body proposes ban on trophy hunting”. It is quite encouraging to read about the concern being shown by our senators on illegal wildlife poaching. However, what is equally disturbing is either the lack of understanding […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has warned a petitioner to submit documentary evidence of his allegations on forest lands leased in Sindh, or his petition will be thrown out. Rana Faizul Hasan, a representative of a civil society organisation, alleged in his plea that vast forest lands in Thatta, Larkana, Sukkur and Hyderabad were leased […]
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Forests Institute (PFI), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Tuesday launched a report, showing a significant 0.3 per cent overall increase in total forest covered areas of Pakistan. Based on scientific research and using the techniques of latest geographic information system and remote sensing techniques by the experts of PFI, the study, ‘Land Cover Atlas […]
By: Zahiruddin CHITRAL: The Himalayan lynx, which is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, is believed to have a sizable population in Chitral but there is no exact data about it. No survey has been conducted ever in the district to know the numbers of the Himalayan […]
Faiza Ilyas KARACHI: “I can’t afford to send my kid to school when there is hunger at home. I spend the whole day looking for labour now while my only son, who used to be a school student, now tends to animals,” Irshad Ali, a resident of Ghulam Nabi Jamali village of tehsil Usta Mohammad, […]
GILGIT: Experts at a workshop called for assessing the impact of climate change in Pakistan and taking policy measures to combat the looming threats of food insecurity in the country. They were speaking at a workshop titled “Food Security and Climate Change” held at a local hotel here on Saturday. Climate change may decrease crop […]
By: Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE: Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa and his two ‘advisers’ got an account opened in a private bank in their ‘private capacity’ to collect donations for the flood-affected people of Sindh. The account, titled ‘Governor Punjab Flood Relief Fund 2011’, was opened with three signatories — Latif Khosa, Zahid Bashir and Farooq […]
Faiza Ilyas JACOBABAD: “Neither the floods spared us nor did the landlords. They are telling us to pay for the expenses incurred on crop cultivation without realising the fact that the entire harvest has been destroyed in the floods. It wasn’t our fault but God’s will,” protested a farmer waiting for his turn to receive […]
Mahvish Ahmad TAUNSA SHARIF: It is difficult to walk around the small piece of land that used to be Laal Khan’s home. Most of his belongings are still buried under piles of mud and earth. The outer rim of a handi sticks out on the right. And a wooden leg piece of a charpai on […]
By: HASHIM ABRO THE Sindh province is faced with several environmental problems. These problems are gas flaring in the upper and lower Sindh regions, oil spillage at Karachi and ecosystems pollution that result from major oil and gas activities, as well as activities of groups or individual members of the Delta communities. The Sindh government […]
By: Mahvish Ahmad RAJANPUR: Abdul Sattar is squatting in front of a flood-swept field of cotton, a 20-minute walk from the entrance to his basti, Miranpur. Almost three months ago, Sattar woke up to find water rushing into his katcha home. Along with 25,000 people in Punjab, and over 400,000 people all over the country, […]
LAHORE: World Wide Fund for Nature – Pakistan (WWF – Pakistan) — officials have called for the destruction of seized illegal leather jackets with fur trimmings in public, which were confiscated by Pakistan Custom officials earlier in September, says a press release. This was reported on Sept 26 in national newspapers, says a press release […]
By: Asna Ali Decision-making is usually based on cost-benefit analysis. It gets a little more complicated when costs incurred today are expected to yield benefits in the future. Often, despite proof that it would be preferable to bear the cost for the sake of huge returns in the future; people are unable to make that […]
By: Zahid Gishkori ISLAMABAD: Three months on, most of the five million people affected by the monsoon floods this year are waiting for financial assistance from the government. Many of them lost family members, crops, homes and cattle. The monsoon season’s devastating after-effects damaged crops over 1.2 million acres of farmland. Over 571 people lost […]
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