Originally celebrated as Spring Equinox for the first time in 1970 when United Nations’ Secretary-General U Thant spoke about it at a Peace Bell Ceremony at the United Nations in New York City, International Mother Earth Day is now observed on April…
“Bravery is listening even when you don't want to hear it.”
What South Asia needs most is a strategy of crisis management principles for India and Pakistan that avoid misunderstanding and undermining of escalatory pressures asserts Zafar Khan, National Defence University, Islamabad, in…
People around the world are plagued by the influences of changing climate. It affects everybody, everywhere. One Planet Summit in Paris held on 12 December 2017 went to by different heads of states, to exhibit their help for quickened worldwide endeavors to…
[slideshow_deploy id='1708']‘Whisky is for drinking; water is for fighting over.’ This maxim of Mark Twain can rightly be put into the context of water conflicts between India and Pakistan. Therefore, it is need of the hour to assess Indian decision to construct…
“Climate change means we need to change.” With Pakistan appearing to take the threat of climate change seriously, its efforts towards climate change mitigation could make a substantive difference for future generations. However, this will require sustained commitment to the implementation of…
Paris Agreement is the sine qua non of global climate action. Adopted in December 2015, entered into force even before the next UN climate conference in 2016 in Marrakech and being ratified by 147 countries in a record time, the Agreement aims…
In 2010, a Congressional Research Service report entitled Security and the Environment in Pakistan argued that environmental pressures such as food insecurity, water scarcity, and the limited availability of arable land could “contribute to Pakistan’s decline as a fully functioning state” and could eventually…