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,
The Punjab government has decided to give 60,000 acres of land to agriculture graduates aiming to provide jobs to the educated youths, besides providing an opportunity to transfer agriculture knowledge to farmers to promote self-employment in the agriculture sector.
: The LPG Association of Pakistan (LPGAP) has suspended 32 percent of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) supplies to Lahore to protest against the city government's takeover of LPG filling plants situated in the city.
The Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts and Accessories Manufacturers (PAAPAM) has flayed allowing import of 10 years old Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses from India, announced in the Trade Policy 2008-09. Chairman PAAPAM, A Malik said Monday that Pakistan would become a junkyard of used machinery as a result of measures announced in recent Trade Policy. He said after five years of use in public transport, the buses would lose their efficiency and after 10 years would outlive their utility. staff report
About 70 percent of Lahore's water supply is contaminated due to a lack of chlorification, a recent survey conducted by the Environment Protection Department (EPD) has revealed. EPD Secretary Zafar Iqbal said that following the first monsoon rain he had ordered EPD staff to collect water samples from across the city. He said that 183 samples had been collected, of which 120 had been tested. Iqbal said that the samples had been collected from water tanks, hand pumps, pipes and other supply sources.
The farmers of Khairpur Gamboh sub-division of Naseer Canal on Monday threatened to besiege the offices of senior officials of Irrigation Department if water was not released immediately into the channels of their area. Tando Jan Mohammad union council nazim Mir Zafarullah Talpur, former nazim of Digri taluka Kazi Fazlullah and others said at a news conference at the press club that water had not been released for past six months into the 16 water channels of Khairpur Gamboh, the largest sub-division of Rohri Canal, which irrigated more than 400,000 acres of land.
Despite increased flow in River Indus, several waterways of Sindh are still facing water shortage, leading to protests by farmers in different parts of the province. Growers took out a rally and held a demonstration in Nawabshah on Monday to protest against acute water shortage in Dholu Minor canal. The rally started from Daur town and terminated at the Nawabshah Press Club. Growers carrying banners and placards raised slogans against the Irrigation Department.
In a city where the number of homeless people is fast rising and humans have a hard time procuring the basic necessities of life, a facility that caters to the needs of animals appears to be a distant dream. And yet an animal shelter has been taking care of animals for the last 29 years. Spread over four acres in a somewhat deserted place near the Toll Plaza, Bilquees Edhi Animal Shelter is currently home to around 75 animals including 36 cats, 6 kittens, 18 dogs, 13 puppies and 5 donkeys.
Flood in Nullah Aik inundated 13 villages of Daska tehsil on Monday, damaging standing crops and forcing dwellers to shift to safer places.
The health ministry has reworked its failed
Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza on Monday warned the officials of irrigation department of severe action if they failed to supply water to the tail-end of all the canals of Badin district within a week. The minister said at a meeting with irrigation and revenue officers at Darbar Hall that the negligence of irrigation officials had caused water shortage in tail-end areas. He said that the irrigation officials who still harboured sympathies with former rulers had created artificial scarcity of water in the district. They would not be spared, he warned.
