Environment, Kyoto Protocol and the Carbon Market

Pakistan today considered to be among the top 20 countries in the world that are gravely endangered to the adverse affects of climate change.

Plastics In Our Environs

Every time we use and throw a plastic product we contribute our share to a deadly pollution whose far-reaching and irreversible ill-effects will be borne by the generations to come.

Pakistan Faces Unprecedented Water Scarcity

There are successful examples of private citizens addressing sanitation issues on a local, community level. For instance, Dr. Akhtar Hamid Khan is the force behind Orangi Pilot Project.

Sun Running the Cells

According to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), one of the foremost challenges Pakistan will be facing in future is the supply of adequate energy.

Creepy Chemicals

This Holiday season, toys containing harmful phthalates, which are known endocrine disruptors, will fill up the shelve space in the markets.

Effects of Climate Change and Bio-Energy

In Asia, temperatures are expected to rise 2-8 degrees Celsius in next 8-10 years affecting climatic variations like decreased rainfall, crop failures and more floods.

Diabetes: Wrestling with a Twenty-First Century Monster

“Half of world’s population at risk of diabetes by end of next decade.� This disorder is encroaching on the traditional confines of age, ethnicity, and geography—in particular AGE.

Paper Trail

To produce five sheets of 8 x 11 inch paper we use the equivalent energy of an 80 watt bulb operating for an hour; but at a cost far greater than that of electricity.

Starting from the End

Wapda and the ministry of power have implemented an emergency load shedding plan to plug the gap between electricity supply and demand leading to more misery for millions.

The Cyclone and the Saudi Prince

Patargata - never heard of it, it sounds like a Thai dish. Do I need to worry about it? I've got enough on my mind.

Floods in Assam

When will Assamese see a permanent solution to the problem they have come to live with. To remove the backwardness of the region, tackling the flood menace is a must.

Fatima Jinnah Park – Metaphor for Pakistan's Problems and their Solution

Capital Development Authority (CDA) has carved out a large corner (6000 sq yards) of the Fatima Jinnah Park for McDonald's at a ridiculously low rental

Why Doxiadis Cries for Islamabad

A planned capital sinks through the neglect of its basic infrastructure at the cost of new wasteful projects

He and She

She ran after him and they looked like two small kids playing in the water.

Smile, for the camera?

One day, years later when the event itself is forgotten and the photo somehow emerges, they will laugh at what they believe to be a real moment.

How Prepared are we for Earthquakes?

On October 8, 2005 we rudely awoke to our nightmare that killed 73,000 and rendered about 3.5 million homeless.

India-Iran Ties

One has the world’s second largest gas reserves and the other is one of the world’s largest gas importers.

Our Tolerance of Comical Illusions

The only superpower in the world claims that it is fulfilling its majority’s wishes but does exactly the opposite. A third-world plutocratic state wishes to better its citizens living standard by investing in a policy that benefits only a privileged

Marine Drive Makeover

Marine Drive is Mumbai’s best known landmark. It has its own natural beauty. That is why there is need to pause and ask whether it is necessary to spend crores of rupees to dress it up further.

Karachi’s Plastic Bag Ban

The ban applies to not just the manufactures and sellers but also the users of the plastic bags. Yes, that means us.

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• Swat Calls For Civil Society to Act
• In Search of Political Will: Fight Against Militants in Swat
• In memory of the Swat valley
• The Nightmare Must End
• In Honor of the Heroes of Swat