Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres…
Jamil al-Juburi, 53, has never left his village in northern Iraq, where his family has worked the land for generations — but a dam will soon swallow his home, forcing…
VERY many in India have nursed reservations about the ‘Agreement on Bilateral Relations Between the Government of India and the Government of Pakistan’ signed at Shimla on July 2, 1972,…
IT is most unlikely that the Modi government did not reckon with the international as well as domestic consequences of the measures it took on Aug 5 to dismember the…
THE much-vaunted agreement at Shimla, on July 2, 1972, between India and Pakistan has wide scope as an ‘Agreement on Bilateral Relations Between the Government of India and the Government…
In 1997 I was posted as high commissioner to India. This came as a pleasant surprise as I had neither served on the India desk in the Foreign Office, nor…
The agreement on bilateral relations between the governments of India and Pakistan, signed by President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at Simla, is probably the only international…
Pakistan’s federation confronts an extraordinary convergence of threats that, if not addressed with diligence and resolve, could undermine its unity. Three concurrent crises — the resurgence of TTP terrorism in…
Pakistan faces a simple but urgent truth: our water crisis won't wait. As someone who has watched floodwaters devastate communities one year and drought parch farmlands the next, I have…
Agriculture sector is indispensable to Pakistan’s economic growth and food security. This sector during the year 2022-23 achieved only a 1.55% growth rate. Heavy flooding in 2022 resulted in a…
