Pakistan biggest freshwater lake is no more a reservoir of drinking water on March 23, 2018DADU: Bashir Mallah, a resident of Goth Hassan Shah which is located on the bank of Pakistan biggest freshwater lake – Manchar – commutes four kilometres daily to fetch drinking water for his family. Mallah and his family are unable to get fresh water, as the lake water has been contaminated by toxic effluents from […]
‘Climate change can force over 140m to migrate by 2050’ on March 21, 2018KARACHI: By 2050, the worsening impact of climate change in three densely populated regions of the world – South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America – can cause displacement of more than 140 million people from their native places. Most of these displacements will lead to migrations within national jurisdictions, says the latest World Bank […]
WWF-Pakistan, SAU Tandojam sign MoU on March 20, 2018KARACHI: In order to conduct scientific research and share information on food and water security, and biodiversity conservation, World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) and Sindh Agriculture University (SAU) Tandojam signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday. The MoU aims to build and strengthen collaboration between WWF-Pakistan and SAU, Tandojam for research and documentation […]
Upstream diversion of river water, climate change kills Indus delta on March 18, 2018KARACHI: Rehmat Dablo, resident of a small fishermen hamlet located on the one the deltaic islands in vast scattered delta of River Indus, was busy cutting branches of mangroves, so that he may feed his camels, the only livestock on the remote island. “Freshwater of River Indus is no more reaching to this part of […]
Home-based workers suffer as Sindh keeps delaying legislation on March 13, 2018KARACHI: Farah Naz spends almost her entire day everyday working on a handheld sewing machine at her house near Sabri Chowk in Orangi town, and a full day’s labour earns her a meagre Rs.150. Contractors working with famous garment brands deliver cloth and other required items at her doorstep and she sews them and returns […]
PPP takes Sindh on March 4, 2018KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) swept senate elections from Sindh. PPP-backed candidates secured 10 out of 12 seats from the province. Despite Friday’s last minute rapprochement between its two factions, MQM-P suffered in the election. It secured only a single seat from Sindh. Sindh’s third biggest party, PML-F won the other seat. On general […]
‘Thar Coal project will make the region’s aquifer run dry’ on March 4, 2018KARACHI: Urban planner Arif Hasan has expressed his grave concerns over the impact of the Thar Coal project on the ecology of the region. Speaking at a talk on Friday, he said it was a human engineering project of an enormous scale, and the government or the private sector alone couldn’t be trusted to handle […]
The Great wall of Sindh — a must visit place for tourists on February 26, 2018DADU: Located at a distance of around 240km from Karachi via Indus Highway (N-5), vastly scattered mysterious Ranikot Fort near Sann town in Jamshoro district of Sindh, is a wonderful historical site for history and heritage enthusiasts. With a circumference of around 32 kilometers, the fort is beloved to be the world’s largest fort. Ranikot […]
A year after the tragedy, Sehwan continues to serve as an abode for peace, harmony on February 18, 2018Karachi: Unlike every other day, the dhammal at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar’s shrine continued for an hour on Saturday. The hour-long performance with head banging and dancing by dozens of devotees gathered at the central courtyard featured bigger dhools that are arranged for a handful of occasions during the year when the dhammal continues past its […]
A day for the endangered Pangolin on February 17, 2018KARACHI: Nature conservationists around the globe including Pakistan are celebrating 7th World Pangolin Day on Saturday (today). Pangolin is considered to be world’s most heavily trafficked mammal. It confronts multiple threats across its habitat range worldwide. Every year, on the third Saturday of February, this day has been celebrated since 2012 to highlight the need […]