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When environment-friendly shopper bags aren't good for the environment at all
Oxo-biodegradable bags may appear to be a good alternative, but they only 'greenwash' the use of plastics
Zofeen T. Ebrahim
Why is Pakistan opening up new coal power plants, even as the world says goodbye to coal?
Pakistan remains wedded to coal power for reasons that have little to do with economics.
A farmer in Punjab is rejuvenating sand dunes though drip irrigation
One farmer has pioneered drip irrigation to transform desert into a fruit orchard – but at a cost few can replicate.
Rabies is preventable but its end is horrific — so why is it not on the govt's radar?
Despite being a vaccine-preventable viral disease, lack of awareness around rabies causes hundreds of agonising deaths.
KP tree ‘tsunami’ nursery workers remain unpaid for six months
KP information minister says that all wages will be cleared before Eid.
Almas Perween: a Vehari farmer trailblazing her way through patriarchy
“Why is cotton-picking always a woman’s job?” asks Parween as she challenges traditional gender roles.
Continuum of harm
A Senate bill to end child marriage has not come a moment too soon.
As a film on his life screens in cinemas, Manto's daughters discover his beloved Mumbai
"It's wonderful to see our parents' lives enacted on the big screen," says Manto's daughter Nusrat Jalal in Mumbai
TRAVEL: PORTUGAL’S NATHIAGALI AT SINTRA
Ensconced between the Portuguese Riviera and Sintra mountains is a verdant city with mesmerising architecture and
Punjab authorities are responding to help manage the smog, but is it enough?
People today know that the mysterious cloak of smog which they once thought was fog is killing them.
Footprints: THE SPICE-PRODUCERS OF KUNRI
THE air here is thick with the pungent smell of chilli peppers that triggers non-stop sneezing, makes one’s eyes...
The real cost of bottled water
An estimated 15-20pc of Pakistanis use bottled water because of fears of unsafe drinking water supplied in the system.
Pakistan’s chilli production scorched by water shortages, theft
Mismanagement of water coupled with its theft has sent production plummeting in the former “chilli capital” of Asia
How a handful of certified divers have been removing litter from the Arabian Sea
Cleaning up the oceans is quite a task and nobody has developed equipment that can quickly comb the bottom of the sea
As a film on his life screens in cinemas, Manto's daughters discover his beloved Mumbai
"It's wonderful to see our parents' lives enacted on the big screen," says Manto's daughter Nusrat Jalal in Mumbai
This culinary vlogger from Shahpur has taken YouTube by storm
By sharing his family's secret recipes, Mubashir Saddique has amassed 500,000 subscribers to his "cooking reality show".
15 burnt schools later: Diamer needs action, not statements
Although no one was hurt, the attacks on schools in the G-B region portend a gloomier future for women.
Pakistan’s mountain communities brace for flash floods
Early warning systems and better weather forecasting have become a matter of life and death for mountainous communities.
In the villages of KP, micro-hydropower plants have transformed life
MHPs can typically generate between five to 100 kilowatts (KW) of power with a shelf life of up to 20 years.
URBANITY: THE BICYCLE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
Amsterdam’s thriving bicycling culture has much to teach Pakistanis about city design