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,
Livestock population in the province is increasing at a rate 2.3 percent to 2.7 percent annually, said Director, Sindh Animal Husbandry, Dr Ghulam Sarwar Shaikh. Talking to journalists here on Thursday, he attributed the growth to better disease control measures, improved veterinary services, training of farmers and increase in outreach services. To substantiate his claim, Dr Shaikh also shared the details of live stock census, carried-out after every ten years by Agriculture Census Organisation.
Transparency International (TI) Global Corruption Report (GCR) 2008 released on Wednesday analyses that corruption affects all aspects of the water sector, from water resources management to drinking water services, irrigation and hydropower. TI Pakistan Chairman Syed Adil Gilani said that corruption in Pakistan water sector since decades has been one of the major causes of slow economic development, shortage of power, irrigation as well as potable water.
Transparency International Global Corruption (TIGC) Report 2008 Wednesday revealed that President Pervez Musharraf has converted army-granted farmland worth US$690,000 in Islamabad into US$10.34 million of moveable assets. According to the TIGC Report 2008 analysis," the scale of the inroads made by the military into 'civilian' sectors of Pakistan's economy, including land, construction, property, manufacturing, fertilizers, agriculture, road building, trucking etc; and that full generals enjoy individual wealth in excess of US$8.3 million,"
- International experts, invited to Pakistan by the Federal Health Ministry for technical review and guidance in the wake of number of polio cases reported in Sindh province, has stressed urgent measures and have held the district leadership as the key to give polio eradication drive a shot in the arm with a view to finally ridding the country of the disease that causes permanent irreversible disability among children.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has asked the provincial health department to hold special training courses for all its grades 19 and 20 doctors to equip them with managerial skills.
: The wildlife department claimed on Wednesday to have arrested an illegal hunter from Cholistan desert range. Bahawalpur Wildlife Deputy Director Mian Muhammed Naseem told Dawn that officials of the department raided a place near Dakwala Toba, some 20 kilometres away from Fort Abbas, and arrested Fayyaz Mahar with three slaughtered deer and 25 partridges while his two accomplices fled. Fayyaz's motorcycle was confiscated and he was sent to jail on the directives of a magistrate.
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas will get Rs8.662 billion for the Annual Development Programme for financial year 2008-09, showing an increase of 30 per cent over the previous year, officials said. The size of last year's ADP was Rs6.60 billion. Officials said 77 per cent of the new ADP funds would go to ongoing development schemes in the seven tribal agencies and six frontier regions and the remaining amount would be spent on new schemes. The ADP is likely to be presented to NWFP Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani in the next couple of days for approval.
To efficiently manage scarce water resources in Balochistan, the government here on Wednesday inked an agreement with the World Bank for provision of International Development Association (IDA) credit of SDR 15.8 million ($25 million). The Balochistan small scale irrigation project will mainly focus on Pishin Lora Basin in the northern parts of the province.
The State Bank of Pakistan Banking Services Corporation (SBP-BSC) will organise farmers' meetings, in collaboration with banks, in different villages, to strengthen the agricultural sector, and would invite provincial agriculture department officials in all such programs.
The Punjab government gives top priority to agricultural research as reflected in its first budget out-laying Rs 940 million for agriculture. This will not be spent on routine research activities but in research projects selected on competitive basis to resolve targeted high priority issues of this sector.
