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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 (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
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 (…)
, by SHEICH Ali Tauqeer
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 (…)
, by JAN Ammar Ali
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 (…)
, by CLARKE Ben, HARRINGTON Luke, OTTO Friederike
There are three key ways climate change probably made these floods worse.
Pakistan is experiencing the most devastating and widespread floods in its history, with the country’s climate minister saying waters have reached across a third of the nation.
The growing tally of impacts is dire. (…)
, by STANCIL Kenny
This is a “climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions,” said the country’s climate change minister.
Pakistan declared a national emergency on Friday as catastrophic monsoon rains, exacerbated by the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis, continued to pummel the country for the third (…)
The government of Pakistan maligned the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a rights body, for “alleged anti-state propaganda,” for submitting a human rights report in July 2022 to the United Nations Human Rights Council for Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
A news item appeared in Daily Jang, a (…)
A national conference on girls’ right to education stressed on the role of academia, civil society and government towards making education compulsory for all by implementing the Article 25-A of the constitution of Pakistan, which ensures free and compulsory education to all children, including (…)
, by KHAN Muhammad Daud
Several riparian districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are facing water scarcity that has lowered crop productivity and affected orchards
Due to severe dry spells and sudden changes in the weather pattern, for the last two years, the guava orchards have dried up in Lakki Marwat. 75 per cent of the (…)
, by HAIDER Mariyam
Through her women’s organisation Tehrik-e-Niswan, she has spent decades holding performances about social issues.
In Pasoori, the runaway hit music video by Coke Studio, the first shot viewers see is of a grey-haired woman in a striking yellow sari standing in a high prayer pose. As the music (…)
, by JAN Ammar Ali, The Students’ Herald (Pakistan)
“A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized,” Chomsky has said a decade earlier and it fully sank in for us these past couple of months. We never had much to show for, but the pandemic clearly dealt the (…)
, by ALI Laiba
Hyderabad : Progressive Students Collective is among six student organizations who have formed the Hyderabad Students Alliance to address the issue of harassment faced by women on campuses as well as the recent raise in tuition fees.
The other organizations in the coalition include (…)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
Pakistani neoliberalism hasn’t rolled back state intervention in the economy. Building on a predatory tradition that dates back to British colonial rule, it has used state power to enforce the ruthless exploitation of Pakistan’s workers and natural resources.
The neoliberal phase in the (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
LAHORE: The budget must take up issues of poverty, reduce non-combat defence expenditure and imports must go down by at least five per cent to avert the immediate current account crisis, suggests noted economist Dr Kaisar Bangali, adding that privatisation is not an answer to the current crisis. (…)
, by AKHTAR Aasim Sajjad
It has been a month since the so-called unity government came to power. It still seems to be labouring under the illusion that formulating a coherent programme to serve the needs of Pakistanis is rocket science. In fact, it is quite straightforward.
For those in government that are committed (…)
, by KHALIQ Abdul
Pakistan has plunged into a major political crisis after the removal of Prime Minister Imran Khan on 10 April 22, through a successful no-confidence motion against the PTI govt. The month-long political crisis began on 8 March when the country’s three major opposition parties – the Pakistan (…)
, by MALLICK Ayyaz
On April 3rd, citing a “foreign conspiracy” to unseat him and to avoid an impending vote of no confidence, cricketer-turned-politician and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved the National Assembly. On April 7th, the dissolution was over-turned and declared unconstitutional by the (…)
, by ULLAH Zafar
On the night between 9th and 10th of April, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ousted by a vote of no confidence in the parliament with 174 members voting against him, making him the first PM in Pakistan’s history to be shown the door in this manner. The motion was supported by all (…)
, by TARIQ Farooq
Suddenly, Imran Khan has become “Anti American”. Former prime minister of Pakistan and head of his Pakistan Justice Party (PTI), Mr Khan is holding mass rallies after losing majority at the national parliament. In his speeches before he was voted out as prime minister but particularly after the (…)
, by QARNI Awais
April 13th, 2017 is a day of historical tragedy. Even today, the scenes of brutality and a horror chill-down the-spine. There was pain in every heart and every mother’s eye was tearful. The entire society was ashamed to see the helplessness of a father. Mashal Khan’s father, Iqbal Lala became an (…)
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