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  • Food Safety in Pakistan

    Food Safety in Pakistan

    <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Food safety in Pakistan</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/pakistan/foodsafety_hl.jpg" style="width: 530px; height: 300px; border-width: 2px; border-style: solid;" /></p> <p>Over the last few decades, the question of ensuring adequate food safety standards has evolved into a much more complicated problem with a series of interconnected factors to be considered. The evolution of science and technology such as the development of high precision analytical equipments and improved agricultural and preservation techniques have made it possible to obviate the manifold safety hazards.</p>

  • Receding glaciers in Pakistan

    Glaciers that feed the Indus River in Pakistan’s Karakoram mountains are melting faster than previously thought. Saleem Sheikh talks to the scientists behind the latest field research that contradicts earlier satellite studies showing glaciers are relatively stable.

  • Indus Water Treaty 1960

    At the time of independence, the boundary line between the two newly created independent countries i.e. Pakistan and India was drawn right across the Indus Basin, leaving Pakistan as the lower riparian.

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