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Though the Pakistani politics was always dominated by the security establishment, a new consensus, however, emerged after the ouster of General Pervaiz Musharraf in 2008.
This consensus allowed for a hybrid democracy and return of the exiled political leadership. The hybrid democracy meant (...)
In early September, after unprecedented rainfall had left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister set out the country’s stall for Cop27. “We are on the frontline and intend to keep loss and damage and adapting to climate catastrophes at the core of our arguments and (...)
Extreme weather will continue to disrupt global food systems. When floods last devastated Pakistan in 2010, an analysis by the International Food Policy Research Institute argued that, as a country with just under 40% of the population employed in agriculture, Pakistan needed to invest in the (...)
On 3rd November, while leading a Long March to the federal capital demanding fresh elections, former Prime Minister Imran Khan was the target of an assassination attempt. Thankfully, given Pakistan’s long history of violently disposing former Prime Ministers, Khan survived with minor injuries. (...)
Members of civil society organisations on Saturday lambasted the police’s baton charge and use of water cannons against protesting health care workers on Friday.
They disapproved the police action against protesting doctors, nurses and paramedics while addressing a press conference at the (...)
A failed attempt in Wazirabad last Thursday to assassinate the former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has resulted in mass demonstrations throughout the country. Khan was aboard his campaign truck, on the long march of his supporters to Islamabad to demand immediate elections. Bullets hit him in (...)
In this particularly poor area of south-east Pakistan, several towns and villages are still under water nearly three months after the monsoon rains this summer which caused widespread and massive flooding. As Mediapart’s Nejma Brahim reports from the province, poverty and illness are rife among (...)
Pakistan has experienced a cruel summer this year. Starting in June, floods of unprecedented severity began devastating the country. By September, a third of Pakistan was under water, over 1,300 people were dead, and as many as 30 million people are estimated to have been made homeless. The (...)
The world’s brief concern for the plight of more than 35 million Pakistanis deprived of their homes, livelihoods and dignity by this summer’s unprecedented monsoon-related floods was summed up in late August by a suitably passionate video appeal by Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio (...)
IT is 2009. A captive TV audience in metropolitan Pakistan is increasingly occupied by events in the otherwise idyllic Swat Valley where armed militias led by a certain Mullah Fazlullah have established a parallel government. Reports of lashings for ‘loose’ women and beheadings in public squares (...)
The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan: Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Pluto Press, UK ISBN: 978-0745346670 185pp.
Many an event — natural or otherwise — has brought prodigious change to human lives. We have witnessed wars, natural disasters, epidemics and (...)
LAHORE: Many farmers and members of civil society demonstrated near Charing Cross on The Mall to call on the government to declare a climate emergency in order to address the climate crisis.
Locals of Khuda ki Basti, and students from various city-based educational institutions were also (...)
The scenes of water torrents running through the fields, mountains, highways and streets in most parts of Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the southern part of Punjab have been circulating on media in the past few weeks, drawing attention to the collapse being experienced by Pakistan. (...)
On 25 August, Pakistan declared a state of emergency due to flooding, which has been described as among the worst in the country’s history. Millions of people have been displaced due to rain and flooding with UN preliminary estimates indicating that 575,000 people were living in relief camps at (...)
Pakistan is suffering the worst floods in history as a result of climate breakdown. We must change how we relate to nature to prevent further calamities.
The scenes of water torrents running through the fields, mountains, highways and streets in most parts of Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber (...)
On August 2, in a landmark verdict of a Christian sanitary worker’s bail decision, the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan declared that preaching Christianity is not a crime in Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The apex court showed its concern about the accused persons in blasphemy cases, and advised (...)
QUETTA: Over the past decade and a half, the Nasirabad division has witnessed at least four major floods.
Consisting of the Jafferabad, Nasirabad, Jhal Magsi and Kachhi districts, this region is considered the ‘green belt of the province’, with agriculture being the primary occupation of most (...)
Cancel the debt, or let the Bretton Woods group profit from climate disaster, writes Farooq Tariq.
At the time of writing, more than one-third of Pakistan is under water. Flash floods, generated by abnormal monsoon rains have so far claimed the lives of 1350 people. One million residential (...)
Screen grab from a video of five men stranded by flash floods in upper Kohistan. Four of them perished in the waters | White Star [for the picture, see the original article.
As the five men scrambled on to a big rock in the middle of the suddenly gushing torrents in the Dubair stream near (...)
Monsoon rains and melting glaciers have driven tens of millions of Pakistanis from their homes. The disaster shows that the poor Global South populations who do least to cause climate change are the people who pay most for its consequences.
A decade since the last mega-floods that hit Pakistan (...)
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