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Decaying delta

Declined river flows have had a detrimental effect on the delta.

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Water deficit

RATHER than augmenting water productivity, our planners are obsessed with building new reservoirs and expanding irrigated areas. The reason? More...

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Watering Cholistan

THE first phase of the Cholistan Canal project has stirred fresh acrimony between Sindh and Punjab. Sindh’s government, political parties and civil...

08.11.2024 100

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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...

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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

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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

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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...

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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...

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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

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The missing link

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

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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...

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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

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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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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Forgotten schools

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

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Climate resilience

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

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