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Syed Mohammad Ali

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Pakistan's floriculture sector

Pakistan's agriculture is dominated by the production of wheat, cotton and more water thirsty crops such as rice and sugarcane. A significant...

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Pakistan's flood mitigation crisis

Climate change is a relentless force, which combines with governance gaps and public neglect, to repeatedly expose Pakistan to catastrophic flooding....

27.09.2025 50

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The plight of the Indus delta

Extractive and wasteful water use has created a severe crisis for the Indus delta, where the Indus River flows into the Arabian Sea. This natural...

20.09.2025 60

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Alternate flood management possibilities

After the widespread destruction wreaked by the 2010 floods in Pakistan, it took the government five years to devise a comprehensive national flood...

12.09.2025 60

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Need to rethink flood management

Pakistan has been hit by major floods again this year. This is not the first time that annual monsoons, supercharged by climate change, have wreaked...

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The failure to forge a global treaty on plastics

While plastics are now an integral part of everyday life, the pollution caused by them has become a major health and environmental hazard. In 2022,...

30.08.2025 40

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Tracking the renewable energy transition

At the last climate summit in 2023, hosted by Dubai, international consensus could not be secured to phase out harmful fossil fuels completely....

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Gender apartheid is a byproduct of hegemony

Apartheid is a term used to describe the systemic oppression, segregation and marginalisation of a specific group of people based on race, ethnic or...

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Is Pakistan really the worst place to be a woman?

Pakistan has reached rock bottom on the Global Gender Gap Index. This year's index ranked 148 countries using a combination of economic, educational,...

09.08.2025 100

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Emergent Indus water sharing challenges

While the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) of 1960 is more of a water distribution treaty rather than a water sharing one, it has provided a longstanding...

02.08.2025 90

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How the attack on Iran has damaged NPT

Rather than helping to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, the Israel-initiated 12-day war with Iran, which the US also joined, has seriously...

25.07.2025 60

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Labour versus capital

Marx famously posited that labour and capital are locked in an antagonist relationship. Although many authoritarian states and populist leaders claim...

19.07.2025 50

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Climate mitigation cannot ignore local contexts

It is ironic that countries and people with the lightest ecological footprints are bearing the biggest brunt of climate change. While the global...

12.07.2025 50

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Big powers need to reassess postures towards Pakistan, India

The recent Indo-Pak crisis has been temporarily defused by a still fragile ceasefire. Yet, this crisis has major policy implications not only for the...

04.07.2025 10

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The current situation in Afghanistan

Although the international community is preoccupied with the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and the lingering crisis triggered by Israeli aggressions in...

28.06.2025 70

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AI and the environment

For Gen X people like me, who are trying to get used to the new world of AI, like we learnt using the computer, and then the Internet many years ago,...

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Are Ibn Khaldun's ideas still relevant for countries like Pakistan?

The dangerous skirmish with our hostile larger neighbour has sparked a rare moment of national solidarity within Pakistan — a welcome feeling given...

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Turmoil in Bangladesh

After its traumatic struggle to separate from the rest of Pakistan, Bangladesh aspired to become a secular and pluralistic democracy. However, despite...

07.06.2025 50

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Nepal after its Maoist revolution

The mountainous, land-locked, never colonised nation of Nepal is getting increased international attention due to the unfolding great power...

30.05.2025 20

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Rethinking the Kashmir dispute post-Pahalgam

The recent cross-border hostilities between Pakistan and India earlier this month has re-internationalise the Kashmir crisis. The current moment...

24.05.2025 50

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An ecologically sensible response to India on IWT

Despite the elation surrounding Pakistan's response to India's post-Pahalgam aggression, many of the country's policymakers are still rightly worried...

17.05.2025 60

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Surging global military spending

Climate change, lingering inequalities and the resulting deprivations prevalent around the world need more attention and greater resource commitments....

10.05.2025 30

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Insufficient and lopsided green transitions

Given that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and that climate disasters are continuing to cause havoc around the world with increasing severity,...

02.05.2025 40

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Conflict and climate change

Conflict is messy, and it can occur in various forms. Conflicts range from outright declarations of war between states to lingering forms of...

27.04.2025 60

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Stop ignoring women's role in agriculture

The incumbent government seems keen to boost agricultural productivity via adoption of the corporate farming model which may prove to be a windfall...

19.04.2025 50

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Rethinking the Indus Water Treaty

The US-backed Indus Water Treaty (IWT), brokered by the World Bank in 1960, created a mechanism for transborder water sharing between Pakistan and...

12.12.2024 5

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The price of consuming unhealthy water

Pakistan occupies the unenviable position of being one of the worst countries in the world in terms of access to clean water. Much of the populace,...

05.12.2024 5

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Contentions surrounding the Nobel for Economics

This year's prestigious prize for Economics was co-awarded to three economists - Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and Jim Robinson - for their work on...

28.11.2024 4

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Mining-related concerns in Pakistan

Pakistan is apparently endowed with huge reserves of minerals, with significant commercial value. Although mineral extraction has been a cause of...

21.11.2024 3

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The dwindling diversity of life on Earth

The Earth does not belong to human beings alone, yet we continue acting as if nature and all other living creatures are here only for us to...

14.11.2024 2

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Stop growing water thirsty crops

Pakistan is on its way to experiencing a full-blown water crisis. We have gone from a nation which had surplus water to one which is now seriously...

03.10.2024 2

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The unfolding human tragedy in Afghanistan

It is a shame that the lives of ordinary Afghans today remain so difficult despite having weathered decades of conflict, including twenty years of...

20.09.2024 3

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Can India become a self-correcting democracy?

Much has been written about the decline of democracy in India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi over this past decade. However, Modi suffered a...

13.09.2024 2

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Our media needs to wake up to the reality of climate change

Pakistan is amongst the top ten hotspot countries when it comes to climate change but one rarely realises this alarming fact despite the profusion...

06.09.2024 4

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What to expect under another Trump presidency

While it is not possible to predict the outcome of the next presidential race in the US, the policies adopted by the new American administration...

23.08.2024 2

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Give Pakistanis safe water to drink

Making safe drinking water available to all citizens, alongside provision of basic health and education, are amongst the most basic...

15.08.2024 2

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The gendered impact of increasing heat

Human-induced climate changes have begun putting increasing pressure on already stressed natural systems on which life on our planet depends....

09.08.2024 30

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The changing nature of foreign lending

Amidst a relative slowdown of the Chinese economy over these past few years, there has been much speculation about the changing nature and scope of...

02.08.2024 2

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