Development planning for our cities on August 11, 2011Monsoons in the past heralded a certain romance, the sound and smell of rain. One missed that season so much when one was away. The feeling of relief from the scorching summer heat, the fresh green plants washed and bathed. The monsoons always brought a feeling of being cleansed. The soul refreshed, with the smell […]
Pakistans energy dilemma on May 25, 2011The hunt for Osama bin Laden may be over, but the search for solutions to Pakistan’s self-created energy crisis is not. I say self-created because if our planning commission and our expert advisors had given some real time advice to the leaders of the country, we may not have seen the crisis grow as large […]
Development is not about trees on May 1, 2011Pakistan is a country that has yet to implement its laws and policy on environment effectively. Of course some will state that these are not the only laws that we need to worry about, let me point out my friend that if the terrorists and the suicide bombers do not kill us, the environmental pollution […]