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Water scarcity — myth or reality?

THE debate on this country’s water security, now being spearheaded by the Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan, is finding traction with a wide range of stakeholders. The need for enhancing…

Strategy On Scarcity

Strategy on scarcity

It is heartening to see articles on Pakistan’s water issues appear with greater frequency in newspapers. The chief justice deserves a great deal of credit for this. His campaign to…

Greater Urbanization Poses Threat

Greater urbanization poses threat

Pakistan is projected to go through rapid urbanisation over the next decade or so with our urban population set to be equal to the number of rural dwellers by 2030.…

Climate finance for the Global South

Going into COP29 where the focus should be on promoting climate-linked development finance initiatives in the Global South, collective action is crucial to attract funding for the intertwined objectives of…

Gender and disaster

PAKISTAN is undergoing the worst of catastrophes due to unprecedented monsoon rains and the ensuing floods. The exact losses and damage to crops, homes, livelihoods and animals cannot be ascertained…

Assigning guilt

THERE are two strands of thought that can be blamed for the practices of law enforcement. The latter has been recently exercised, unabashedly, to detain, harass and intimidate family members…

Eight billion and counting

In an unprecedented chapter of human history, the global population has surged by an astonishing 4.49 billion people in just the last century. This explosive growth has raised the world's…

Agriculture is not the future of Pakistan

The argument that Pakistan is an agrarian economy is always reinforced by the agriculture sector’s significant share in GDP, its role as the single largest exporter, the largest employer that…

Prioritising sustainable, small-scale farming

Evolution is natural ongoing phenomena since day one and there is a famous phrase of philosophers and scientists believes that “THE LAW OF CHANGE CANNOT BE CHANGED”. Having this universal…

Renewable electricity revolution

Pakistan has the potential to double its electrical power generation per capita within three to five years and simultaneously achieve stable and reduced electricity prices. The country’s entire national electricity…