Environmental Issues

  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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

                                         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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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  […]