Both Pakistan and India regularly forbid rice cultivation to conserve water and prevent land degradation. But with the crop tied to farmers’ livelihoods, a blanket ban is a weak solution As Pakistan bans water-guzzling rice, one farmer has an...
آج 19 اکتوبر کو دنیا بھر کی طرح پاکستان میں بھی اقوام متحدہ کا اعلان کردہ ’ورلڈ ٹوائلٹ ڈے‘ یا ‘عالمی یوم بیت الخلا’ منایا جارہا ہے۔ اس دن کو منانے کا مقصد حکومتوں، میڈیا اور عوام الناس میں حفظانِ صحت سے متعلق آگہی پیدا کرنا ہے۔ اس سال اس...
MITHI, SINDH: Last year, two cousins who wanted to marry each other in a town hemmed in the rolling dunes of Pakistan’s Thar desert took their own lives by hanging themselves from a tree because they did not have the money to arrange their wedding...
Farming is the main source of income for 60-year-old Zahir Shah from Chanda village in the Ghallani sub division of Mohmand district. He owns a rain-irrigated piece of land. For the last 35 years, he has grown wheat...
KAMBER SHAHDADKOT: For two months Sobdar Khoso has waited for the Warrah Branch in Qambar Shahdadkot to have enough water for him to sow his paddy crops in the Kharif season. After pinning his hopes on rain, which did...
آج دنیا بھر میں عالمی یوم آب منایا جارہا ہے، اقوام متحدہ کے مطابق دنیا کی تیزی سے بڑھتی ہوئی آبادی کے پیش نظر آبی ذخائر میں خطرناک کمی آتی جارہی ہے۔ اس دن کو منانے کا آغاز سنہ 1992 میں برازیل کے شہر ریو ڈی جنیرو میں...
PESHAWAR: The issue of drinking water being faced by the residents of Shamozai village in Katlang tehsil in Mardan district for many years is a classic example of red tape and incompetence of the public sector...
In the constituency of Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah, drinking water is a key issue Inside small water well, on a narrow road, a young man is busy digging a ditch. Using his spade, he loosens a lump of mud and...
ANEESA Abdul Sattar knows how to keep cool to reduce thermal stress — drink plenty of water and bathe. Yet both these measures are beyond her. She lives in that quarter of Lyari, in Karachi, where unannounced power...
دنیا بھر میں آج بیت الخلا کا عالمی دن یعنی ورلڈ ٹوائلٹ ڈے منایا جا رہا ہے، پاکستان میں اس وقت 1 کروڑ 60 لاکھ سے زائد افراد بیت الخلا کی سہولت سے محروم اور کھلے میں رفع حاجت کرنے پر مجبور ہیں۔ ٹوائلٹ کا عالمی دن منانے کا...
آج 19 اکتوبر کو دنیا بھر کی طرح پاکستان میں بھی اقوام متحدہ کا اعلان کردہ ’ورلڈ ٹوائلٹ ڈے‘ یا ‘عالمی یوم بیت الخلا’ منایا جارہا ہے۔ اس دن کو منانے کا مقصد حکومتوں، میڈیا اور عوام الناس میں حفظانِ صحت سے...
KARACHI: During Pakistan’s fight against the deadly coronavirus, the country did little to protect an essential group working on the frontlines — sanitation workers. A report titled “Sanitation Workers: The Forgotten...
Lack of legal implementation continues to fence female farmers from being held in the same regard as men KARACHI: It was for the first time in the history of Sindh that a landmark ruling had hinted at the possibility of...
Developing country economies would be boosted by trillions of dollars over the next two decades if clean water, toilets and hygiene were brought to everyone
Islamabad : Parliamentarians from National Assembly, Senate and provincial assemblies of Punjab and Sindh have pledged to work together to improve legislative framework governing ground water extraction in Pakistan and...
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