ISLAMABAD: Monsoon floods in the country have killed 455 people over the past five weeks and affected more than five million, according to the latest figures from the government’s disaster relief agency. As in the previous two years, most of those hit by the latest floods were in Sindh, where the National Disaster Management Authority […]
By: Muhammad Hashim Khan Bhurgari BADIN: Residents of Badin have expressed concern over the way large-scale oil exploration is being conducted at two Ramsar sites — Nurry and Jabho lagoons — in Ahmed Rajo union council in Shaheed Fazal Rahu taluka of Badin district. They said that they would welcome the projects only if they […]
By: Z Ali HYDERABAD: Rains and flooding may have affected only the northern districts in Sindh this year, but the after effects have been felt as far as the Thar Desert in the south. Those living in Tharparkar have become an inadvertent casualty of the floods caused by widespread showers in September. The recent catastrophe […]
By: Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Rana Muhammad Farooq Saeed Khan surprised the legislators when he informed the Senate on Friday that the government had imposed a ban on cutting of all kinds of trees way back in September 1993 but massive felling of trees was on since then, having at adverse impact […]
By: Arturo Ramo Currently, there is much talk about ecology and protection of the environment in the media. Care for the environment is one of the biggest challenges humanity faces right now, highlighting global warming and the scarcity of energy resources. In places like Africa, there are serious problems of erosion and desertification of large […]
The SAARC member countries have decided to formulate a roadmap for flood risk management that would be presented in the next SAARC summit for approval. The decision was taken in a workshop titled ‘SAARC Workshop on Flood Risk Management in South Asia’ organised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with Disaster Management […]
By: Sameer Mandhro KARACHI: Private sweepers hired out of desperation to collect the mounds of garbage that have piled up in Karachi have started burning it to cut corners. The crisis developed after the city sanitation staff stopped making the rounds over a week ago over unpaid salaries. Saddar and Lyari are particularly badly hit. […]
By: Syed Mohammad Ali This was the third year in a row that we have witnessed devastating inundations across different parts of the country. This year, the floods have killed over 400 people and left several thousand people injured. Hundreds of thousands of people across thousands of villages have been displaced from their homes. Overall, […]
By: Naeem Sadiq The ancient Romans had foreseen that one day, there will be an Islamic Republic, whose rulers will be hell-bent upon destroying their own environment and natural resources. The Romans, therefore, came up with a public trust doctrine, which stated that natural resources, like the air, sea, water and forests have such a […]
By: FAKHIR HAYAT OSTO ONCE again the people of Jacobabad district have been left at the mercy of nature to survive through the trauma created by floods. A 40-hour-long record downpour proved more than enough to collapse the entire irrigation and drainage system. The worst-hit is the region of Jacobabad taluka. This is the part […]
BY: YASIR BABBAR The recent heavy rains/floods have badly affected more than 11,000 small and big villages in 12 districts of Sindh and people of the affected areas are facing worst times in relief camps, Business Recorder learnt on Thursday. Sindh Relief department in its reports regarding the losses of recent rains/flood said that the […]
By: AGHA ALI GOHAR KHAN THE devastating floods in 2010 and torrential rains in 2011 wreaked havoc on Sindh as a number of protective dams on both sides of the Indus were badly damaged and broken at different places. After that, work of strengthening the protective dams was started with the help of the World […]
LAKSHMI Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN for Women, said at the closing session of the 2012 World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, on Aug 31 last that globally it was estimated that women spent more than 200 million hours a day collecting water. She added that development could neither be sustainable nor inclusive if […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency has sealed a factory under the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997 for polluting the environment, it emerged on Tuesday. For its persistent act of polluting the surrounding environment, the industrial unit has been sealed by Sepa under Section 16 of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act 1997, which authorises the […]
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