Both have recently come up with special issues, remembering two of Urdu literature’s towering figures: Krishan Chander and Akhter-ul-Iman...
In these works, gadha, or donkey, symbolizes common man and by depicting its plight Krishan Chander satirizes the political system and social circumstances in India, though this more or less applies to Pakistan, too...
It is: she has replaced none other than Iman Ali in the movie...
Why Iman A left the project is not yet known...
More than 80 per cent of the population in Pakistan faces "severe water scarcity"...
He discussed dams, Pakistan’s water and energy crisis, and the challenges of managing data and water...
ISLAMABAD: The Rs30 billion worth of much-delayed Golen Gol Hydropower Project in Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is getting ready for power generation in about two months, however locals may not be able to consume the electricity owing to distribution constraints...
Informed sources in the Power Division told Dawn on Tuesday that the first 36-megawatt unit of the project was nearing completion and expected to start generation...
The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has sought more than 80 per cent increase in tariff to pay around Rs88 billion hydropower profit to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the next fiscal year...
Wapda has a generation capacity of about 7,000-megawatt or almost one-third of the country’s total power generation
8 million for preparation of a hydro-power development plan for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
The draft renewable energy assessment report, including capacity assessment of local renewable energy manufacturers, distributors and project developers, will be finalised soon...
WE are a hydro-society where historically our livelihoods, settlements, wealth and culture were defined and inspired by water...
Despite the importance of water for Pakistan, we have transformed from a water-abundant state to one of ‘perceived’ scarcity...
APROPOS Usman Mirza’s article ‘Hydro-diplomacy’ (July 5)...
Pakistan is facing a shortfall of around 40MAF (million acre-feet) today which may rise to 100MAF by 2025...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while addressing a joint press conference with Bosnian counterpart Denis Zvizdic in Sarajevo briefed journalists regarding the plans for cooperation of the two countries on coal and hydro-power projects...
India has fast-tracked hydropower projects worth $15 billion in India-held Kashmir in recent months, three federal and state officials said, ignoring warnings from Islamabad that power stations on rivers flowing into Pakistan will disrupt water supplies...
The swift approval of projects that had languished for years came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested last year that sharing the waterways could be conditional on...
NEW DELHI: India has fast-tracked hydropower projects worth $15 billion in held Kashmir in recent months, three federal and state officials said, ignoring warnings from Islamabad that power stations on rivers flowing into Pakistan will disrupt water supplies...
The swift approval of projects that had languished for years came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested last year that sharing the waterways could be conditional on...
ISLAMABAD: Diplomatic channels need to be open for ‘hydro diplomacy’ that can address water management issues between India, Afghanistan and Pakistan, conference participants said on Thursday...
The conference, titled ‘Water Beyond Borders’, was organised by Lead Pakistan...
This followed after the authority completed three previous much-delayed hydropower projects under a fast-track policy and generated nearly Rs80bn in revenue...
ISLAMABAD: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is seeking $425 million from the World Bank group to develop run-of-river hydropower projects on Swat River Basin which has an estimated energy potential of 2,000MW...
The KP government has developed a project at a cost of $782m
What the renowned American hydro expert David Lilienthal wrote in 1951 holds true even today: “No armies with bombs and shellfire could divest a land so thoroughly as Pakistan could be devastated by the simple expedient of India’s permanently shutting up the source of water that keeps the field and the people of Pakistan green...
” He directed his team to use water as a weapon to deprive Pakistan of water from the Western rivers... ...