Month: July 2020

Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, has vowed to build the “biggest dam in Pakistan’s history”. The 272-metre-tall Diamer Basha dam will be able to store up to eight million acre feet (MAF) of water. Khan has also promised to build more dams to generate “clean electricity”; this one will generate 4,500 megawatts. Not all are convinced, and some have been voicing their concerns at the risk of being termed enemies of the nation. One such person is Saif M Hussain, who trained at the California Institute of Technology…

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ISLAMABAD, July 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For 20 years, Khunjerab National Park was a point of tension between Pakistan’s government – which established the park in 1975 as a sanctuary for rare species – and locals who had grazed their livestock on the land for generations. As disputes over the land raged, poachers decimated Khunjerab’s wildlife, villagers say – until 1995, when local people and the authorities decided to work together to better protect the park. “Our communities knew about natural resource management (and) we were well organised,” said…

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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday sou­ght an explanation from the chairman of the Capital Deve­lopment Authority (CDA) over the construction of a club near Rawal Lake. The court issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a citizen against the construction of the Navy Club and denial of citizens’ access to the lake. “The chairman, Capital Development Authority, shall, inter alia, explain in the report under what authority of law permission has been granted (for construction of the club) and general public denied access to a…

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