This study aims to understand how climate-related risks and hazards are reshaping traditional avenues of job entry and employment, particularly for young people in Pakistan. This brief is aimed at policymakers,
Rains in Karachi on Tuesday left seven people dead and several injured, while the entire power generation and distribution system of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) collapsed, plunging almost 85 percent of the city into darkness. The heavy downpour led to tripping of major feeders supplying electricity to the city.
An agro food processing facility will be functional at the Multan Industrial Estate by the end of this year. Talking to this correspondent here on Tuesday, Pakistan Mango Growers Association President Zahid Hussain Gardezi said that machinery for the Rs213 million facility had been imported from Italy. He said Smeda provided Rs135 million for the machinery, which had arrived in Karachi, while the Punjab government provided funds for land procurement and construction of a building.
The health authorities have now decided to shift the unused cell separator, which was procured by the Sindh government at a cost of Rs3 million in its drive against dengue about a year back, to the Civil Hospital Karachi at the earliest.
Subsoil drinking water in Sahiwal district contains heavy proportion of sulphate and fluoride, according to the lab testing of water samples of different areas of the district. The excessive presence of sulphate and fluoride cause hepatitis, teeth deformation in children, unhealthy bone development, stomach diseases, especially constipation, joints problems, drowsiness and fatigue. The amount of concentration in groundwater creates serious implications on vital organs of humans.
The massive power breakdown that plunged the city into darkness on Monday night also wreaked havoc on the city's major water pumping stations, forcing the teeming millions to suffer a shortage of around 160 million gallons of water. Pumping of water to the city from all the major pumping stations
As the parks department has failed to save trees from being felled in different areas, the city government imposed on Tuesday a complete ban on felling of trees anywhere in the metropolis, by any civic agency, without its prior approval.
Sindh Minister for Fisheries Zahid Ali Bhurgari has said that a water supply and sewerage scheme for the development of Qasimabad taluka has been submitted to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah and he has called for a feasibility report from the departments concerned to lay a network of development schemes in Qasimabad. He was addressing to an open katchehry at Qasim Park in Qasimabad on Monday.
Two people were killed and over two dozen injured on Tuesday evening when a strong rain-bearing monsoon weather system hit Karachi, witnesses and hospital sources said. The year's first monsoon showers also wreaked havoc on the Karachi Electric Supply Company's frail distribution network, which was already reeling after it collapsed following a light drizzle late Monday night. A 30-year-old woman was killed when the wall of her house at Pahar Ganj collapsed. The body was brought to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where she was identified as Sakina.
The workforce in carpet industry which generated $200 million through exports in 2005 comprise most vulnerable, marginalised and dispersed population which also included children, says a recent study conducted by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) on Bonded Child Labour in the carpet industry of Thar. At least 40 per cent of the workforce in carpet weaving are children, the report said.
Punjab on Tuesday feared that Mangla Dam might not be filled this year, putting two-thirds of wheat crop in irrigated areas of the province in jeopardy during the next Rabi season. Provincial water mangers say the question of taking the Mangla lake to 1,212 feet, as planned by the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda), does not arise at the moment.
