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Diseases and pollution

It has been abnormally hot in the city of Karachi. The daytime temperatures have, at times, been above 40 degrees and the whole city is sizzling. Coupled with it is…

Fiscal pollution

IN some ways, modern Islamabad is akin to 15th-century Ferghana in Central Asia. The novelist Lytton Strachey wrote of the first Mughal emperor Babar, who was born there in an…

Cost of pollution?

OVER the last seven months or so, our daughter has been unwell a number of times. The usual symptoms have been high fever and a cough. A couple of times…

The health toll of air pollution

One thing which still remains binding between Pakistan and India and reminds us of each other is the weather and the atmospheric environment and its consequences on both sides of the…

Pollution in the air

Every day, thousands of drivers are forced to idle needlessly on the roads of the federal capital in the name of ‘security’. Indeed, security in and of itself is important.…

Politics of pollution

Once deemed a strong contender in the race to economic prosperity, Pakistan has since lagged behind, scrambling to sustain its ever-growing population through the proliferation of industrial enterprises. The country…