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Pakistan
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Genetically modified food answer to food crisis'
Genetically modified crops can help solve international food crisis faced by many countries including Pakistan, said US Special Advisor on Science and Technology Dr Nina V Fedoroff on Thursday. Talking to reporters at a local hotel, Fedoroff said the international community had ignored important issues like energy and food in the past and was now paying for that negligence. She said the world should try to find both short and long-term solutions to end food problems.
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Water pollution causing disease, workshop told
The University of Sindh Vice-Chancellor Dr Mazharul Haq Siddiqui has said that deterioration in water quality due to contamination of lakes, rivers and groundwater aquifers has led to increased waterborne diseases and other health hazards. He said at the inaugural session of a workshop on "Urban Water Demand Management' organised by the university's Centre of Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (NCEAC) on Wednesday that Pakistan needed to formulate policies on a war-footing to balance water withdrawals by recharging resources.
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Innovative programme launched to develop wasteland in Fata
The federal government has launched an innovative programme costing Rs 216.084 million for the sustainable development of vast plans of wastelands of Fata through appropriate technologies and practices of dry land horticulture.
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Nazim, officials charged with illegal tree cutting
The National Accountability Bureau, NWFP, has filed a reference in the accountability court against 13 people, charging them with inflicting a loss of Rs56.577 million to the exchequer through illegal cutting of trees in the Hazara tribal forest division. According to the NAB, the accused, including four employees of the forest department and a tehsil nazim, had managed to admix a large volume of illegally-cut timber with genuine timber of joint forest management committees (JFMCs).
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Workshop on 'Carbon Credits Potential in Wind Power' on August 29
): 'Carbon Credits Potential in Wind Power Sector in Pakistan' would be highlighted at a two-day workshop being organised by the United Nations Development Program/Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF)-funded Wind Energy Project (WEP) on August 29 and 30 at a hotel here.
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Bt cotton: why do so many smart people get it so wrong?
Ron Herring Neither duped nor innumerate, cotton farmers face extreme challenges
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CM turns attention to potable water supply: Pipeline survey ordered
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered a complete survey of water supply lines and replacement of rusty and eroded ones, besides installation of maximum filter plants in the province. He also ordered audit of different projects being executed by the Punjab Municipal Development Fund Company (PMDFC), a handout said. He was presiding over a meeting to discuss supply of potable water to the people here on Tuesday.
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Loadshedding sparks off violence: Case against 2,000 protesters
Unbridled loadshedding provoked massive outburst of public sentiments against the electricity companies on Tuesday as the citizens converging in thousands at the city railway station clashed with police after resorting to violence. Protests were held in many other parts of the province also in reaction to enhanced loadshedding duration. The protest in Okara took an ugly turn when a large number of people, prominent among them traders, occupied the main track at the city railway station, stopping the Lahore-bound Quetta Express for three hours.
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'Pakistan capable of meeting water scarcity challenges'
Pakistan can overcome impending water scarcity challenges by adopting proper and timely strategies besides enhancing its reservoirs and reducing water losses in the country, water experts said at a two-day conference which began here on Tuesday.
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FCAP and UAF jointly organising workshop on August 30
Federation of Chambers of Agriculture Pakistan (FCAP) and University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) are jointly organising a one day national workshop entitled "Food Security, Horticulture Export and Livestock Development" on Saturday (30th August) at 9.00 am in the New Senate Hall of the University.