2019

Privatisation of forests   Plot by plot, the beautiful and scenic spots of Nathia Galli, Doonga Galli and the other ‘galliat’ of  our northern mountains are […]

    The Filthy Rich City By Vaqar Ahmed   The Filthy Rich City The garbage-choked streets of Karachi present a truly dismal picture. The city produces […]

The Environmental Apartheid   The 5 star Serena Islamabad, best known for its  cost and exclusivity was the venue for holding a one  day seminar  (one […]

  Tap Water for All “There is no logical explanation for regular bottled water use: It costs more, offers less and pollutes our planet unforgivably.” ~  […]

Sips from a Broken Teacup By Raihana A Hasan Ushba Publishing International, Pakistan ISBN 978-969-9154-18-8 2011.429pp.   Sips from a Broken Teacup Reviewed by Naeem Sadiq […]

Plunder at  hill stations   Imagine for a moment that you get up one morning with a deep sense of suffocation, darkness, depression and emptiness.  You […]

Noise levels   I am fortunate to be living in a spiritually blessed area. There are five mosques, each located within half to one kilometer of […]

McDonald  Ka  Pakistan Pakistan  has  much to be proud of.   It is therefore strange that it places so much emphasis  on displaying  missiles and McDonald’s restaurants, […]

Lessons for Pakistani mayors – who destroyed even the existing infrastructure and pushed their cities back in time by decades. “Why do you always ask me […]

 Sinister sale of Saiful-Maluk   For years the eco-system of Balochistan has been mercilessly plundered by bandits from rich Middle Eastern states.  Trampling upon large tracts […]

Stop killing for pleasure In complete violation of the judgments of the Honourable Supreme Court and the two High Courts, several Mid Eastern Shaikhs, supposedly the  […]

Karachi 2020 – a citizen’s perspective   “Any city in the world can be improved in less than 3 years.  It is not a question of […]

K-Electric and Net Metering?   India has an ambitious plan to boost its clean energy capacity to 175 Gigawatt  by 2022 and will invest Rs.127 billion […]

Justice for Houbara Bustards   By the time this article appears in the press, some one thousand Houbara Bustards would have been officially annihilated by our […]

Hill resort – on a downhill slide   With each passing  kilometre of the   34 KM journey from Abbotabad to Nathiagali, one can see, smell and […]

Our dependency syndrome In 2016, a   Chinese company was awarded a contract for garbage collection in the districts South and East of Karachi at the rate […]

Environmental plunder and the right to know The ancient Romans had foreseen that one day there will be an Islamic Republic, whose rulers will be hell-bent […]

Cycling – a missing component of Karachi’s development   Bicycle, the most energy-efficient form of transport ever devised.  It doesn’t emit pollution, it runs on renewable […]

                                         Citizens, Sepa and sewage   Dawn  10 Jan 2008,   http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/10/ed.htm   “KARACHI’s sewage disposal problem is a reality which cuts across sectors, affecting the whole […]