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Saving freshwater via re-lining

Saving freshwater via re-lining

"Akram Wah canal faces serious water shortages often and we are not able to supply irrigation water to our farmers when it is needed", says water...

23.03.2026 30

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Mohammad Hussain Khan

The yearly price fixing failure

Despite the presence of a market committee to oversee commodity price ceilings, market monopolies continue to negatively impact.

16.03.2026 30

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Mohammad Hussain Khan

Replacing colonial-era water laws

An entirely new unified water law is on the anvil to govern the water sector in Sindh. The idea is to run the sector more effectively and efficiently,...

14.01.2026 80

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Fixing the water crisis in Karachi with lining work

After achieving 30 per cent progress in lining the Kalri Baghar (KB) Feeder Upper lining project last year, work was all set to resume from Dec 20...

16.12.2025 70

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The rise and ruin of Keti Bunder

A once-thriving delta civilisation is now retreating inland as the Indus dries, the sea advances, and whole communities watch their land slip away.

03.12.2025 10

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Agriculture: Another year, another cane crisis

While the Sindh government has recently announced its intent to procure wheat for the 2025-26 season, it seemed indecisive about fixing sugarcane’s...

25.11.2025 40

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Challenges to Pakistan’s cotton sector are far from over

Findings of recent back-to-back surprise visits to some ginning factories in lower Sindh — known for cotton production — by members of the...

28.10.2025 30

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Rice growers complain of ‘unjustified deductions’ by millers

Paddy harvesting started only last month in the lower Sindh region, and farmers — mostly small landholders — are already complaining about...

14.10.2025 40

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Mohammad Hussain Khan

Flooding on the Indus — boon for some, pain for others

This year, Sindh’s two main barrages — Guddu and Sukkur — have already experienced medium and high floods in July and August. Now, authorities...

02.09.2025 10

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The growing aversion to cotton

A small cotton producer, Arshad Khaskheli in Sanghar — a hub of cotton production — could not salvage his cotton on a four-acre plot. He, however,...

26.08.2025 30

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Nai Gaj dam’s eye-watering cost escalation

The unending cost escalation — 405 per cent (from Rs16.92 billion to Rs85.57bn) as per the unapproved third revised project cost (PC-I), as well as...

12.08.2025 30

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How Hyderabad is keeping the memory of Karbala alive

In Hyderabad’s centuries-old Imambargahs, mourners gather to perform sacred Muharram rituals steeped in devotion, grief and hope.

06.07.2025 10

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Malformation, pests and water shortage: The mango meltdown in Sindh

In the last five years, the acreage of mango orchards across Sindh has dwindled, shrinking from 59,100 hectares in 2019-20 to 58,900 hectares in...

25.06.2025 10

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Sindh’s increasingly fragile agriculture

Until April last year, Imran Bozdar, a cotton grower from Sanghar, had brought 100 per cent of his land — all 150 acres — under cotton...

06.05.2025 30

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Mango growers struggle with malformed fruit due to unpredictable weather, water shortages

While mango season begins next month, the crop has survived initial shocks due to climate change-driven variations in weather conditions coupled with...

22.04.2025 30

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Stressed rivers and drying farmlands

Just after a week, the sowing of Kharif crops will formally begin in Sindh. However, early sowing of cotton crops, a major Kharif cash crop, has...

25.03.2025 20

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‘Inconsistent energy policies hit economy’

HYDERABAD: Pak­istan’s energy sector is being managed by inexperienced and irresponsible individuals, which is leading the country’s economy...

20.03.2025 30

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Work on Sukkur barrage continues to improve irrigation, deter past water disasters

A major part of the ongoing upgrade of the colonial-era Sukkur barrage is set to be completed before this flood season of 2025. It includes...

25.02.2025 80

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Agriculture: Lining the Nara Canal

A 2km stretch of the Nara Canal, the largest channel in Sindh’s irrigation network, has been lined to restore its original parameters, which were...

11.02.2025 50

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Mohammad Hussain Khan