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Masood Lohar

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Time bomb

Time bomb

Reduced river flows will compound water stress in Sindh’s vulnerable districts.

12.01.2025 100

Dawn

Masood Lohar

Death in the air

TODAY, a staggering 25 per cent of Pakistan’s population is struggling for clean air. The Air Quality Index caps at 500; yet this year, Lahore...

29.12.2024 8

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Masood Lohar

Our environmental debt

11.11.2024 2

The News International

Masood Lohar

Lethal weather

22.10.2024 1

The News International

Masood Lohar

SOCIETY: DEFYING THE MOB

The swiftness with which the blasphemy allegation against Dr Shahnawaz Kumbhar, a 36-year-old doctor at a government hospital in Sindh’s Umerkot...

13.10.2024 4

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Masood Lohar

Paradox Modi

Assuming office as the chief minister of Gujarat in 2001, Narendra Modi’s rise subsequently and the metamorphosis that would follow was a...

11.10.2024 2

The News International

Masood Lohar

Pakistan’s Eskimo trap

With a median age of just 23, Pakistan stands among the youngest nations globally, presenting a tremendous opportunity to harness this demographic...

29.09.2024 3

The News International

Masood Lohar

Climate under siege

FOLLOWING extreme heatwaves in almost every corner of the world, heavy rains and floods shocked the global community. This is becoming a pattern....

23.09.2024 2

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Masood Lohar

The real-estate monoculture

Pakistan’s unchecked real-estate sector is swallowing resources and land, driving up property prices while stifling growth in manufacturing and...

16.09.2024 7

The News International

Masood Lohar

The immigrant is the future

Imagine a few decades from now when most of the First World countries – especially Japan and those in Europe – are led by individuals born in...

09.09.2024 2

The News International

Masood Lohar

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...

02.09.2024 1

The News International

Masood Lohar

This is climate hell

As the world strives to meet the Paris Agreement’s target of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels, nature has issued...

30.07.2024 4

The News International

Masood Lohar

Global climate chaos

Extreme weather events continue to manifest worldwide in various forms. A few days back, Toronto (Canada) experienced over 100 millimeters (about...

23.07.2024 3

The News International

Masood Lohar