Brick by brick
The brick kiln industry in Pakistan is a highly profitable sector. With over 20,000 brick kilns, the country is the third-largest brick producer in South Asia, employing approximately 4.5 million…
Business strategy in downtimes
Business environment has been uncertain and unsure. That was to be. Any country before the elections is naturally tentative. Any industry before the new government is elected is careful and…
Shall we tell the politicians?
Pakistan continues to grapple with a multitude of complex challenges that threaten its national security, hinder its socio-economic progress and have been destabilizing the country in a perpetual manner. In…
The rise of nanomaterials
Nanomaterials represent a rapidly emerging industry that is impacting a large number of products ranging from electronics and agriculture to medicine and the defence industry. Nanotechnology depends on the discovery…
Civilization under threat?
Masood Kizilbash’s book ‘Human Conflict with Nature’ published by the Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre Islamabad in 2020 carries an intriguing subtitle – ‘Alarm Bell for the Demise of…
When breath becomes a luxury
As smog envelops Lahore, it triggers a political blame game. Pakistan maintains a consistent presence among the world’s most polluted countries, securing the third position in the latest 2022 report…
Careless children
Greek philosopher Plato opined that the wealthy fostered a lack of restraint and refrained from conforming to legal and moral standards. Nearly two millennia later, Hobbes argued in his seminal…
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…
Our smog battle
In recent years, Lahore, the heart of Pakistan, has grappled with a grave environmental crisis: smog. The annual smog episode has become a recurrent nightmare, suffocating the city and its…
The solid waste challenge
Solid waste generation rates are on the rise across the world. One of the factors fuelling this generation is the rising trend of promoting a consumer culture that not only…
