By: Fazal Khaliq SWAT: Thousands of people from ten tribes based in the Malam Jabba region on Sunday rallied against timber smugglers and illegal logging, denuding the forests of Swat. The angry protesters held placards inscribed with slogans demanding help in saving their forests and were chanting slogans against the parties involved. They demanded strict […]
By: YASIR BABBAR Sindh tourism department has miserably failed to free Keenjhar Lake of pollution despite showing expenses worth millions of rupees in its budget documents, it is learnt on Friday. The department has made tall claims on many occasions but the fact is that the lake still suffers from pollution and acute water shortage. […]
MUZAFFARABAD: A landslide killed three Pakistani soldiers in the high mountains of Kashmir on Friday and 18 people sent to rescue them were missing after being hit by a second landslip, officials said. A military rescue operation swung into action after heavy snows triggered the accident at a remote outpost in the Kel area of […]
By: Peer Muhammad ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change on Thursday recommended banning the licensed trophy hunting. The suggestion was made by members of the committee which met with Senator Saeeda Iqbal in the chair. The panel discussed a range of issues related to the wildlife. “It is strange that we are giving […]
By: NISAR RASOOL THIS is with reference to a news report on floods in Sindh (Nov 21). According to the report, about 5,000 children of 26 rain-hit villages in Dadu district have not gone to their respective schools in the past three months. The reason was that the schools of these villages/areas were closed down […]
SUKKUR: The effects of floods in Sindh in the last two years were made worse by bad governance and mala fide on part of those feudal lords who had had the course of floodwater changed to save their lands at the expense of the poor. These views were expressed by participants of a meeting organised […]
By: RIAZ AKBAR THIS refers to the report ‘Call to protect masses from climate change’ (Nov18) by Bhagwandas which says that climate change policy exists but without its implementation. We all know that pollution causes global warming which needs to be arrested forthwith if we want to protect our marine life and coastal resources. It […]
By: Zahiruddin CHITRAL: The valleys of Chitral have witnessed a distinct variation in climatic conditions over the last four decades, shortening the duration of winter by months and reducing its severity. Senior citizens, mostly those in their seventies and eighties, told Dawn here that Chitral’s climate had undergone a tangible change over decades and that […]
By: Shahid Husain Karachi: Pakistan is unlikely to meet its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) regarding forest coverage because after the 18th Amendment it has become a provincial subject and the Sindh government has its own priorities, law and order being topmost, Benazir Income Support Programme etc, a well-placed source in the ministry of climate change […]
By: Shahid Husain Karachi: Former Environment Minister for State and Regional Councilor of the IUCN Malik Amin Aslam said that Pakistan was in control of the situation surrounding the refugees of climate change. He made the observation at the “Dialogue with Business on Resilience, Climate Change and the Private Sector in Sustainable Coastal Management” event, […]
KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday have expressed dissatisfaction over relief work being carried out by Sindh and Balochistan governments for the victims of rains. They recommended change in the system of the government dependent with involving local community based organizations, notables and social welfare department in the relief distribution. The event titled ‘Issues […]
By: Qurban Ali Khushik DADU: Around 5,000 children of 26 rain-hit villages in six union councils of Dadu district have not gone to school for the past three months. Their schools shut down in August stayed closed during monsoon. Teachers don’t come to those schools which were still open causing loss of their student’s time. […]
By: HASHIM ABRO Millions of people have been displaced; they are passing their inclement days and chilly nights under the open skies; rain and flood water has become stagnant and breeding ground for mosquitoes. Nothing has been done for the displaced people, their health is damaged; sanitation, clean water supply, housing, and agriculture have been […]
By: M.B. Kalhoro LARKANA: Around 500 families from villages spread across the Sindh-Balochistan border, who had gathered around the Saifullah Magsi branch — emerging from the Khirthar branch — in Hazarwah union council after escaping the onslaught of heavy rains in their areas, are marooned there because rainwater has not been drained from the area. […]
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