Environmental Issues

November 11, 2016

One person CDA

November 16, 2016

Our travel footprint

November 16, 2016

Plunder of Gulliat

November 16, 2016

Saif ul Muluk Lake

November 16, 2017

Return the plundered land to nature

November 17, 2017

Rethinking Galiyat development

November 17, 2017

Tarnab farm

February 16, 2019

Karachi sinking in its own sewage

  Karachi sinking in its own sewage In 1994 less than 15%  Istanbul’s residents had access to waste water treatment.  By 1998 this figure had climbed to […]
March 27, 2019

bureaucracy and carbon foot print

Bureaucracy-generated carbon footprint “Your passport has not arrived. You need to come back another day”, says the utterly remorseless Passport Office clerk in a matter-of-fact tone.  […]
March 27, 2019

Citizen annonymous

Citizen Anonymous   Reading a book, sipping coffee, sitting under a gazebo enjoying  the soothing sunshine of a reluctantly receding winter in one of the many […]
March 27, 2019

Citizens, SEPA and sewage

                                         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 […]
March 27, 2019

Cycling – a missing component of Karachi’s development

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 […]
March 27, 2019

Environmental plunder and the right to know

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 […]
March 27, 2019

Garbage collection and foreign loans

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 […]
March 27, 2019

Hill resort on a downhill slide

Hill resort – on a downhill slide   With each passing  kilometre of the   34 KM journey from Abbotabad to Nathiagali, one can see, smell and […]
March 27, 2019

Water and Wastewater Managent in Istanbul

March 27, 2019

Justice for Houbara Bustards

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 […]
March 27, 2019

K Electric and net metering

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 […]
March 27, 2019

Karachi 2020

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 […]
March 27, 2019

Killing for pleasure

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  […]