Stories by Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
Credible climate resilience is anchored in a socioeconomic hierarchy that consists of five layers.
Published 07 May, 2026 07:58am
Pakistan's NDC 3.0 is a sophisticated and serious document at serious risk of following its predecessors into the archive of well-intentioned commitments that change little on the ground.
Published 06 May, 2026 02:43pm
Pakistan is not dealing with a collection of separate climate crises. It is one crisis, with many faces, bearing down on us. And time is running out.
Updated 07 May, 2026 08:15am
Trade interdependence produces political stability by making conflict expensive.
Updated 23 Apr, 2026 09:31am
The IWT’s technical framework remains legally valid and needs only political will to activate.
Published 16 Apr, 2026 06:38am
The climate emergency declaration was both an environmental and economic statement.
Updated 09 Apr, 2026 09:36am
The direct ecological cost of the Gulf conflict is immediate and enduring.
Published 26 Mar, 2026 07:55am
The Ganges Water Sharing Treaty misses three traits that made the Indus Waters Treaty resilient.
Updated 12 Mar, 2026 09:47am
The Rules of Business lack clarity on specific institutional roles in climate governance.
Published 26 Feb, 2026 07:39am
Pakistan can transform its climate vulnerability into long-term sustainability.
Updated 12 Feb, 2026 08:40am
The capital now appears regularly on pollution indices it once escaped.
Updated 21 Jan, 2026 09:35am
America’s withdrawal from the UN climate treaty must be treated as an opportunity.
Updated 15 Jan, 2026 09:22am
Sweet milky tea, sugary sweets and ghee-drenched parathas are everyday comforts that cost us over $4 billion for edible oils, $600 million for tea, and significant subsidies and spikes for sugar.
Updated 01 Jan, 2026 09:29am
Pakistan’s superior judiciary operationalised ICJ’s recent climate principles much earlier.
Updated 18 Dec, 2025 09:04am
The IMF report sidesteps how governance rot directly manufactures climate catastrophe.
Updated 04 Dec, 2025 08:43am
Pakistan’s current legal framework for animal welfare is a study in anachronism.
Published 26 Nov, 2025 05:42am
Three decades of COP negotiations have transformed climate action.
Updated 20 Nov, 2025 09:28am
Upstream states are increasingly weaponising water resources.
Updated 06 Nov, 2025 09:07am
Does the 2025 assessment show the application of lessons learned from the 2022 floods?
Updated 23 Oct, 2025 09:12am
The next five years will determine whether or not Pakistan will emerge as a new player in South Asia’s clean air landscape.
Updated 17 Oct, 2025 02:40pm
