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Naseer MemonThe News on Sunday |
Declined river flows have had a detrimental effect on the delta.
RATHER than augmenting water productivity, our planners are obsessed with building new reservoirs and expanding irrigated areas. The reason? More...
THE first phase of the Cholistan Canal project has stirred fresh acrimony between Sindh and Punjab. Sindh’s government, political parties and civil...
AMID rapidly depleting water resources, Punjab has embarked upon an exercise to build new canals and develop new command areas. The Green Pakistan...
THE Indus River System Authority is again in the spotlight. Following in the footsteps of the previous caretaker government, the present regime is...
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...
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...
THE tumult generated by the collapse of Gate 47 of Sukkur Barrage in Sindh subsided after the irrigation department brought the situation under...
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,...
COMMUNITIES and the nearest administrative tier are considered the linchpin of any disaster management system. Pakistan’s National Disaster...
WITH the approach of the monsoons, timely precaution is needed. The South Asian Climate Outlook Forum has anticipated above-normal rains in the region...
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...
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...
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...
THE newly elected Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and the ruling PPP chairperson Mr Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari have reiterated their commitment...
IN a significant move, President Arif Alvi has refused to approve a contentious summary that seeks to restructure the Indus River System Authority...
HUMAN development is the inevitable casualty of natural disasters. The devastating blow to the health, education, drinking water, sanitation and...
FLOOD devastation is often characterised by breached embankments, collapsed houses, broken roads, loss of crops and traumatised masses. Sindh...
THE screening of development projects through the lens of climate resilience requires a paradigm shift in development planning and budgeting. The...