The federal government has finally begun to speed up efforts to close in on the wildlife traffickers who had sneaked rare white tigers into the country, as two of the animals have now been
The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has linked some 70 pre-partition villages in the rural areas of Keamari Town and Scheme-42 through a 62-kilometre long road network, extending it to the RCD Highway, Hub Chowki and Hawkesbay Road at a cost of Rs 400 million.
A change in the species of the elephants being purchased by the Karachi city government for its zoo after the publishing of advertisements was not according to the rules, Dawn has reliably learnt.
The discharge of heavily contaminated domestic and industrial waste into Phuleli Canal in Hyderabad continues unabatedly and no relevant authority has taken notice of the grave threat this situation poses.
A large portion of the province, particularly the lower Sindh, has brackish and saline underground water due to the influence of the sea and water shortage in the Indus River.
Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KW&SB) in collaboration with the Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) South Asia has established Citizen Report Card (CRC) cell to design and implement the proposed reform agenda in water sector of the cosmopolitan city. The purpose of the project was to solicit user feedback on KW&SB's service.
British Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi Robert Gibson has said climate change problems could not be tackled on its own and these challenges ought to be addressed with the active participation of the countries being affected regionally and globally.
National Task Force consisting of the representatives of the relevant sectors will be set up on control of Asthma while a joint action plan would be drawn up for control of Asthma through a participatory process.
A UK-based climate change expert has said that there will be an exceptional change in the temperatures in Pakistan as a whole in the coming years, but that the province of Sindh will be less affected as compared to the other parts of the country.
Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to establish proper mechanism for treating industrial effluents as only one percent of wastewater is treated, daily, before being discharged directly into rivers and sea.
A lingering dispute between the Sindh government and City District Government Karachi (CDGK) may put the long-awaited Rs 500 million Benazir Transit CNG buses project in doldrums.
