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Protests bring CPEC’s Kashmir dam to a halt
The site of the 1,110 MW Kohala hydropower project in Kashmir lies forlorn and quiet without the usual humdrum noise of heavy machinery and vehicles. For the last eight months protests in Muzaffarabad...
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A woman farmer shows the way
Almas Perween may seem diminutive, but a great deal of responsibility rests on her shoulders. She is a farmer, and a trainer of farmers, a big responsibility for a woman from a village whose name is...
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Preserving the pangolin
“We had information that a suspected smuggler was in the area, so we were checking all vehicles going to Myanmar,” said the customs department officer who used to be posted in Moreh, in India’s...
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No end to coal in Pakistan
Forty-year old Roshan Nabi looks at her neighbour’s house with envy as they enjoy uninterrupted and free electricity, while her family suffers long power cuts in the blazing summer heat of Pakistan’s...
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Opinion: Pakistan needs to urgently tackle its tourism pollution problem
I slowly pivoted on the spot, trying to keep my hand steady, as my phone’s camera captured the stunning natural beauty all around me. But no matter which angle I tried, I could not get a 360 degree...
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Indus Blues documents musical traditions dying out in Pakistan
Indus Blues is an aural and visual delight, and it is no wonder it is winning, and being nominated for, a slew of awards. A 75 minute documentary on the folk musicians of Pakistan by the young...
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Restore Pakistan’s rivers, handle floods, droughts and climate change
A recent study published by Springer in 2019 – The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment (authored by 210 scientists from 22 countries), warns that these mountains could lose between one-third to two-thirds...
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Pakistan’s Indus delta becoming no man’s land
Eighty-year-old Abdullah’s full name is Abdullah Wadero. In Sindh, Wadero is a title given to big landowners. Abdullah used to own 150 acres of farmland in Kharo Chhan, a coastal area in Sindh’s Thatta...
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Siachen glacier is turning into a high-altitude dumping site
The Siachen glacier is often referred to as the world’s highest battlefield, where Indian and Pakistani troops have faced off since 1984. During the years the trash accumulated by the long deployment...
View ArticleSaving Pakistan’s ibex hunting programme
Pakistan’s trophy hunting program has gained the reputation as one of the best managed sports hunting programs in the world. It is often quoted as an example of a successful community-based...
View ArticleRescuing Lahore and Delhi
My husband has an unfailing belief in humanity. Every time I start worrying about the problems of climate change, he says, “When people realise there is no other way forward, except to work together to...
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Ecology, power and art at the Karachi Biennale
Perched in a coastal – mostly reclaimed – neighbourhood in Karachi, the Jehangir Kothari Promenade stretches over a recently constructed, shortly abandoned, nearly occupied, and narrowly ‘recovered’...
View ArticleA young climate activist and her doll
“Of all the things what saddens me the most is the level of plastic I see in the sea and on our beaches,” the eight-year old climate activist Emaan Danish Khan told thethirdpole.net. “All this plastic...
View ArticleManaging glaciers along CPEC in Gilgit-Baltistan
The much touted China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be passing through Pakistan’s beautiful Gilgit-Baltistan province in the north to reach the Chinese operated Gwadar port in the south of the...
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Government joins the water tanker business in Karachi
Tap running dry? Most residents of Pakistan’s largest city know who to call for doorstep water delivery. Few know where the water comes from. Wind through the backlanes of Karachi’s District East to...
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Climate change leaves women in Skardu facing disaster
Rosi Bi, a middle-aged woman from Skardu’s remote Sadpara village, can clearly illustrate how rapidly livelihood in her area has been affected by climate change. “Our forefathers have been livestock...
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Two cheers for Pakistan’s electric vehicle policy
When you think of electric vehicles, you think of Elon Musk, a noiseless Tesla and luxury more than zero emissions. But today, Pakistan government’s wants to use the same technology for the common man...
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A plague of locusts
As the global community sits in Madrid for COP25 to find ways to limit the average global temperature rise, in the small village of Rahil in Sindh province’s district Umerkot, 28-year-old Mohammad...
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Best of 2019: A woman farmer shows the way
Almas Perween may seem diminutive, but a great deal of responsibility rests on her shoulders. She is a farmer, and a trainer of farmers, a big responsibility for a woman from a village whose name is...
View ArticleWhy don’t CPEC projects factor in the climate crisis?
The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is one of the most ambitious components of China’s Belt and Road Initiative to build infrastructure abroad. Its goals were set out in a long-term plan...
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