Environmental Issues
August 17, 2025
Sewage Sans Frontières Incorporated into the outer walls of houses, constructed with bricks, linked to drainage systems and covered with wooden seats. Such were the toilets […]
August 28, 2025
Rivers in the sky Naeem Sadiq Published August 27, 2025 MANY monsoons back, in a small remote village there was an old widow who had tied a small […]
October 5, 2025
The last pit Naeem Sadiq Published October 4, 2025 , The last pit – Newspaper – DAWN.COM GEORGE Masih had unclogged six completely choked raw sewage gutters with […]
October 18, 2025
Mr. Shehbaz Sharif Prime Minister of Pakistan, Dear Sir, An appeal for peace and de-weaponisation Warm greetings. 1. For the past two decades, ‘Citizens Against Weapons’ […]
November 20, 2025
Disarm to Heal One of the biggest self-inflicted tragedies of Pakistan has been its generous and mindless distribution of weapon licenses. This misguided benevolence has multiplied […]
April 1, 2026
Deathly processes Naeem Sadiq IT is often said that every process has at least three versions. How the bosses think it works, how it actually […]
April 1, 2026
Future fires Naeem Sadiq EVERYTHING that could go wrong with Gul Plaza did go wrong, just as it had in the Baldia factory fire of 2012. […]
April 1, 2026
Cost of indifference Naeem Sadiq A STATE derives its legitimacy from its ability to safeguard its people from preventable harm — whether arising from disease, unsafe […]
April 1, 2026
Counting children Naeem Sadiq FIRST the good news: on Feb 21, 2026, Sindh carried out its first real-time digital birth registrations of four newborns at public teaching […]
April 9, 2026
Austerity delusion On March 20, 2026, Pakistan’s Prime Minister delivered a somewhat unwarranted and empty address to the nation – merely to announce that he had […]
April 19, 2026
Placed below is the ‘Citizens’ Commission for Equality and Human Rights Report 2025 report for the year 2025. Summary: The 2025 Annual Report of the […]
May 1, 2026
Why mimic a decaying civilization? A leisurely evening walk is a blessing. One runs into many pleasant and health-conscious residents. But far more profound is the […]
June 20, 2026
THE 2025 annual report of the Citizens’ Commission for Equality and Human Rights states that over 100 sanitation workers die while cleaning human excreta in the […]
June 20, 2026
IT is always recommended not to perform with great efficiency something that ought not to be performed at all. Imagine a country that first lets problems […]
June 20, 2026
Citizens’ Commission For Equality & Human Rights (CCEHR) Special Report on avoidable deaths of sanitation workers engaged in manual cleaning of raw sewage gutters. June […]
July 19, 2026
Citizens appeal to the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the four Chief Ministers. Prohibit centuries old dehumanizing and degrading practice of manual scavenging and entry into […]
July 23, 2026
AN average week in the life of the nation, as reflected by the travel itineraries of its top leaders: the president of the country recently on […]
August 14, 2026
‘BIOSP’ solution Dawn August 13, 2026 ASPHYXIATED by three excruciating liabilities — the Rs83 trillion debt we must repay, galloping population numbers we must accommodate and […]
August 14, 2026
Bloated Bureaucracy ONE does not have to be a jaundiced cynic to reach the unfortunate conclusion that two factors — the unchecked daily arrival of 19,000 […]