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  • 08/04/2025

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  TRAWLING CONCESSIONS

  The government of Pakistan will allow factory trawlers of China, Taiwan and Korea to do deep-sea fishing in the country's waters. "The permits to foreign trawlers require the mandatory installation

  • 14/07/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Fisheries
    • Fisherfolk
    • Pakistan

• PAKISTAN

  Factories in Pakistan's Faisalabad city are spewing one hazardous pollutants, while the water and garbage disposal systems seem to have virtually bid goodbye. Rapid industrialisation has

  • 29/04/1995

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  • • Pollution
    • Industry
    • Pakistan

• LOSING BATTLE

  Despite a multi-million campaign against opium growers in Pakistan, production of the 1998 opium crop is expected to be all time high. According to estimates, opium poppies have been planted on

  • 30/05/1998

  • Down To Earth
  • • Agriculture
    • Narcotics
    • Pakistan

• PROMOTING CNG

  Some 150 compressed natural gas (CNG) stations will be set up throughout Pakistan within two years under the nation's CNG promotion programme. Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP)

  • 27/02/1999

  • Down To Earth
  • • Environment
    • Pakistan

• South Asia

  radioactive wastes: A Pakistani senator recently accused the country's nuclear authorities of dumping radioactive waste near a village in the Punjab province causing cancer, miscarriages, and

  • 29/06/2006

  • • Mining
    • Uranium
    • Health Effects
    • Mango
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    • Bangladesh
    • Pakistan
    • Maldah

• MINING PROFITS

  Pakistan is all set to foreign investment in minerals. Late September, the country announcedvi- new mineral policy, giving a package lot tax and other concessions to attra 'he foreign

  • 30/10/1995

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mining
    • Pakistan

• SHACKLED FOR LIFE

  Cutting down a tree in the Punjab state of Pakistan could :result in a life-long sojourn at the prison, promises the Punjab chief minister, Arif Nakai. The ominous threat was delivered at the

  • 30/03/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Environment
    • Pakistan
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  While Pakistan angers Arabs for its bustard...

  IN Pakistan, environmentalists have gone to court to save the houbara bustard from being hunted by wealthy Arabs. The bustard case has not only angered the Gulf states, it has also provoked a surge

  • 14/06/1992

  • Down To Earth
  • • Environment
    • Public Interest Litigation (PIL)
    • Wildlife
    • Bustard
    • Pakistan

• GREEN GRANTS

  With a US $30 million grant from the European Commission (EC) announced recently, the Punjab and North West Frontier provinces in Pakistan are being targeted for environmental

  • 30/05/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Environment
    • Pakistan

• FIGHTING MORPHEUS

  Pakistan, in the grip of a drug abuse crisis for long, is seeking to take all possible steps to handle the menace ***. Consumption of heroin has increased dramatically over the years. With 3 million

  • 14/07/1995

  • Down To Earth
  • • Health
    • Drugs
    • Pakistan