menu_open
Naseer Memon

Naseer Memon

The News on Sunday

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Divisive canals

AMID rapidly depleting water resources, Punjab has embarked upon an exercise to build new canals and develop new command areas. The Green Pakistan...

24.10.2024 90

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Irsa controversy

THE Indus River System Authority is again in the spotlight. Following in the footsteps of the previous caretaker government, the present regime is...

16.09.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Resilient abodes

IN rural areas a house in most cases means a thatched hut built over ancestrally owned land without any supporting documents. Most of these houses are...

06.09.2024 90

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Disastrous spells

A fter a dry and scorching July, Pakistan is in the grip of monsoon rains. Northern areas of Gilgit and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have had several spells of...

18.08.2024 20

The News on Sunday

Naseer Memon

Lessons not learnt

THE tumult generated by the collapse of Gate 47 of Sukkur Barrage in Sindh subsided after the irrigation department brought the situation under...

16.07.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

The fall of Gate 47

WHILE ‘Form 47’ continues to be the talk of the town, ‘Gate 47’ is generating a very different kind of buzz in Sindh. For context, on June 20,...

01.07.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

The missing link

COMMUNITIES and the nearest ad­­ministrative tier are considered the linchpin of any disaster management system. Pakistan’s National Disaster...

22.06.2024 70

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Monsoon menace

WITH the approach of the monsoons, timely precaution is needed. The South Asian Climate Outlook Forum has anticipated above-normal rains in the region...

04.06.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

April enigma

THE country is in the grip of an enigmatic weather cycle. Snowfall drifted its way from December-January to February-April. A startlingly wet April...

17.05.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Wrong choices

A FRESH conflict has erupted between Punjab and Sindh on the issue of irrigating a new command area. Punjab’s irrigation department sought a water...

23.04.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Constant decline

THE UNDP’s Human Development Report for 2023-24 ranks Pakistan 164th out of 193 countries. Last year, Pakistan stood at 161. Its decline on the...

06.04.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Resilient Sindh

THE newly elected Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and the ruling PPP chairperson Mr Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari have reiterated their commitment...

23.03.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Taming Irsa

IN a significant move, President Arif Alvi has refused to approve a contentious summary that seeks to restructure the Indus River System Authority...

23.02.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Continuing crisis

HUMAN development is the inevitable casualty of natural disasters. The devastating blow to the health, education, drinking water, sanitation and...

29.01.2024 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Forgotten schools

FLOOD devastation is often characterised by breached embankments, collapsed houses, broken roads, loss of crops and traumatised masses. Sindh...

03.01.2024 60

Dawn

Naseer Memon

Climate resilience

THE screening of development projects through the lens of climate resilience requires a paradigm shift in development planning and budgeting. The...

21.12.2023 100

Dawn

Naseer Memon

e28a7cfb766105511d3a52997faf4d7e