Guest Blog: Sustainable Living by Asif Iqbal
01 week ago
Asif Iqbal is a development professional and a voluntary presenter in Pakistan with Al Gores’ The Climate Reality Project, a group of individuals around the world dedicated to educate stakeholders on climate crisis and seek sustainable solutions. You can contact him at asifoghi@yahoo.com
Living with nature is the most sustainable way in human lives. People who feel concerned about sustainability and threats to human lives, such as climate catastrophes, now believe to seek sustainable solutions for healthy protected life instead of continuing arguments with skeptics. It is a common understanding that “when you disturb nature, in reaction nature disturbs you”. However, unfortunately this natural disturbance now affects poor people more than those who live with more resources. With recent trends, we have witnessed disasters in every part of the world whether it is hunger driven continent of Africa, developed region of Europe or growing economies of Asia. The only More >
ecoWarriors: Natasha Paracha
01 month ago
Natasha Paracha graduated in 2005 from the University of California Berkeley with honors in Political Science. She was crowned Miss Pakistan World in 2008, which is sure to give the readers the first impression that Natasha is involved in promotion of products or just a lip service ambassador for some cause. This however, is not the case. She is actively working for the promotion of the use of clean technology & sustainable development in Pakistan. Thus, she is on our list of ecoWarriors. To sum up her work:
“She is leveraging her development experience and reputation as a leader in women’s rights to expand IREO’s (Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization) work to Pakistan through programs that promote the use of affordable and clean sources of renewable energy. As the founder of the non-profit Vision of Development Natasha has worked to raise awareness of the 51 million Pakistanis do not have access More >
The Dying Indus Delta
01 month ago
KARACHI: Once upon a time, the Sindhu River, flowed triumphantly into the Arabian Sea, regal, majestic, bragging of the beauty of the alluvial lands it left on its pathway. Today, thanks to lack of rains, and the construction of barrages and dams from Punjab to Sindh, its appearance at the Thatta-Sajawal bridge, seems to be only a wide strip of left over rain water.
It is the several contributing factors at stake that have changed this river into a sorry sight.
Rains for instance are what Pakistan needs the most, especially being an agricultural state. The Indus River too, apart from being fed by glaciers, depends upon rains, so that the summer monsoons and the Western Depressions can give it back any water lost in the middle.
Even though the land of Punjab manages to survive because of high annual rainfall, the Indus in Punjab and its tributaries have become More >
ecoWarriors: Naila Ismail Mir
01 month ago
Naila Ismail Mir is Corporate Affairs Manager – Sustainability & Communications at Unilever Pakistan Ltd. & her motto towards both her personal & professional life is “To make a difference”. She lives by the rule of helping others before herself & this has led to her firm commitment to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) sector of the business world.
A British born Pakistani; Naila moved to Pakistan after her GCSE & continued with her studies here. She has done her BBA & MBA from National College of Business Administration & Economics. On the professional front she has interned with Tetra Pack Lahore, & then worked with Dupont Pakistan Operations Pvt Ltd where she worked in Marketing & Sales for NOMEX & Kevlar. From here she went to Unilever Factory in Rahim Yar Khan after her marriage where she worked for three years. There her last assignment was as the Development More >
Guest Blog: Being a Vegetarian in Pakistan by Omar Farooq
12 months ago
by Fatima Arif
in Health
Omar Farooq is a final year undergrad business student at Forman Christian College. You can find him on Twitter @Omarfarooq_
I, the mutant specimen, was born into a meat devouring, red blooded Punjabi family. It would be disingenuous of me to say that I do not like the taste of meat. As a matter of fact, I still crave for a juicy steak or chicken barbeque, the common belief that the smell of meat makes a vegetarian nauseate does not hold true in my case, on the contrary it makes me feel weak at the knees. Now that you know little my background you can appreciate my family’s outrage and disappointment when I told them I had decided to be a vegetarian. I had a coming out moment with my mother when I first professed my love for vegetables; her nonplussed reaction after few moments was, ‘but More >
