In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global …
DEFORESTATION in Pakistan has increased manifold in recent years. Over-grazing, taking over of forest land for cultivation and the increased demand for timber, have led to an increase in logging operations, which has resulted in the forest cover decreasing from 14 per cent to 5.2 per cent of the total …
though environment-related issues and crises have been repeatedly highlighted by the media in Pakistan, not much has been done to improve the situation. And it is unlikely that the forthcoming elections in the country will make any difference. Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party's manifesto, which is the most articulate on …
Two and a half-year-old Avsar Khan was diagnosed for acute megakayo blastic leukemia (a rare form of blood cancer) at the Aga Khan hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1987. He was then referred to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. The doctors gave him three months' time. December 27, …
A solar fruit-and-grain drying system has been developed by the Farm Machinery Institute at Islamabad, Pakistan, for better conservation of fruits and vegetables. The new drying system contains eight identical flat-plate solar collectors with a total surface area of 15 square metres. These are used to achieve a drying capacity …
pakistan is under siege. Hordes of tiny pests that have developed a penchant for defying the commonly used pesticides are swamping the nation, ticking away like a time bomb in the soft underbelly of the country's economic system. These hordes have been generated
Plans are afoot to build the world's largest floating power station which will supply 450 MW of power to energy-starved Pakistan. The plant would cost US $402 million, 95 per cent of which would be raised through a long-term loan provided by the US maritime administration. Westinghouse Electric Corporation of …
Pakistan's power sector is poised for a big boost with the recent announcement of a US $600 million financial package by the World Bank (WB) to produce electricity from untapped natural gas reserves in the south-west region of the country. Several US, European and Asian companies and banks will be …
If the present birth rate continues, Pakistan's population will grow by leaps and bounds and by the year 2050, it will rank third behind China and India. This has been projected by a study carried out by Washington-based Population Action International. The present population will triple to 381 million in …
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 rehabilitation. Gaspard Dunkelsbuhler, head of the EC delegation in Pakistan said the grant which be will given over a period of seven years …
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 spring tree plantation campaign inauguration ceremony at Lahore Park, Lahore, on February 11 this year. Now onwards, …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Punjab, Pakistan, has yet to deliver its no. objection certificate to the Islamabad-based Northern Electric Company Limited which plans to build a coal-fired power plant in Choa-Saidan Shah in the Chakwal district. The EPA has asked for mom details on how the company would …
To combat drug trafficking across Pakistan and Iran, a new communications network across their common border will be set under the aegis of the United Nations Drug Control Programme. The network, which involves building more than 60 towers along the frontier on both sides. will become operational in March this …
Pakistan will soon benefit from an interestfree US $140 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to improve its drainage system. Under the aegis of a national drainage programme, problems of waterlogging and salinity will be looked into, which has affected about 14 per cent of Pakistan's 16.2 million ha …
High cotton prices in the US is proiNG beneficial for the Pakistani cotton growers as their cheaper cotton finds favour in Asian trade circles. with sizable amount earmarked for exports, Pakistani coarse Afzal cotton and a finer grade of cotton identified as I! is now being sold in huge balefuls …
The Pakistim government's Private Softw are ExpoW Board (PSEB) has solicited bids fro international top guns in the computt field to set up software technology PAN in the country. The parks will cater needs of the software companig according to Shahid Mir, managing director, PSEB. attract foreign investments, the government …
Pakistan is gearing up to face the environmental conditions likely to be European countries in the New world trade order. As a first step, it has undertaken to facilitate a pollutionfree atmosphere at Kasur by Adopting the Kasur Tanneries Pollution Control Project. The project will ensure that only those leather …
Intellectual property rights have been given avirtualgoby in Pakistan. The evidence is the flood of pirated books, music, audio casets settes and computer software, mo smuggled in from the Far East Japan and Hong Ka China, Pakistani environmentalists, howe tend to challenge the concept of in lectual property rights as …
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 investment to explore miners I of ranging from coal to gold. The at ign policy is expected to raise the mineral …
Japan's decision to impose anti-dumping duties of upto 9.9 per cent on cotton yarn imports from Pakistan has enraged Pakistan's cotton-exporting lobby. The decision followed an investigation that revealed that Pakistani cotton was being sold in Japan at between 2.1 per cent and 9.9 per cent below the prices back …
