Tag: Environment

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that the government is committed to provide all available resources to provinces and other partners for...

In recognition of the World Environment Day, the Lahore Zoo management has planned to organise an event on June 04, 2011. Acting Zoo Director...

A nine-member delegation headed by Senate Deputy Chairman Mir Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali will attend the 15th General Assembly of the APPCED being held...

The Shah Faisal Town Administration will organise a walk (today) Monday to create environment awareness among the residents of the town. The participants will...

In line with the thought, I am the change, Warid Telecom takes yet another earth friendly step by supporting the Kinnaird Environment Society (KES)...

LAHORE - The two-day poster exhibition at the Government College University (GCU) on the theme of 'environment' received warm response from students and art lovers. Khalid Hameed Sheikh was the chief guest at the exhibition organised by the GCU Biological Society in collaboration with WWF Pakistan.
Students from 20 colleges and universities put on display as many as 117 posters at the GCU Abdus Salam Hall on "Can man be a saviour", "Natural recourses", "Allah created for you all

ISLAMABAD - Recommending that Ministry of Environment should be retained by the federal government, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Environment Monday said that devolution of the ministry to the provinces would make implementation of international treaties in the country difficult.
The standing committee meeting was held with Raja Muhammad Asad MNA in the chair here on Monday. The Ministry of Environment is to be devolved to the provinces in the third phase of the

ISLAMABAD - Around Rs 27 million of the public exchequer was used for fuel and maintenance of 53 vehicles and inland tours of the top officials of the Ministry of Environment during 2008-10, the Upper House was told on Friday. According to details, over Rs 8 million were spent on fuel and more than Rs 3 million on maintenance of 53 vehicles of the main ministry, which excludes all attached departments, during 2008-9, while over Rs 8.5 million was spent on fuel and Rs 4 million on the

LAHORE - Imperial College of Business Studies has launched a programme 'Reverse the Surroundings' in which a group of students have initiated the challenging task of spreading awareness about cleanliness in the society. The leader
of the group is Abdullah Arshad and included four other members Abdur Rehman Arshad, Ahmad Jahanzaib, Abid Mehmood and Fahad Shehzad. They have worked tirelessly on beautification of Main Saddar Market Sarwar Road through a practical approach, with

KARACHI - "I observe and absorb the environment and issues that surround me. In time, these issues develop a distinct relationship with my thoughts, resulting in a discourse of a profound and meditative nature," Usman Ghouri says. The open-ended dialogues of such a discussion share a presence in Ghouri's work without prejudice or judgment. Born in Sukkur, Ghouri received his Bachelor of Design degree from Lahore's National College of Arts in 1992, and his Master of Arts degree from

PESHAWAR - A one day workshop on National Climate Change (NCC) Policy was held Saturday at the Archaeology Museum Hall, University of Peshawar in which experts assessed the draft of the new National Climate Change Policy for the country.
The experts were of the opinion that in the era of global warming and climate change there is a need for a comprehensive NCC Policy to avoid the frequently occurring natural disasters in Pakistan.
They said that most of the areas in the

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Environment Samina Khalid Gurki visited the World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan (WWF Pakistan) Head Office on Tuesday for a briefing on various conservation and environmental projects which have been organised by the WWF Pakistan Director General Ali Hasan Habib.
WWF Pakistan has entered its 41st year of conservation in Pakistan. This was Gurki's first visit to the organisation after becoming the Federal Minister for Environment.
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KARACHI - State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Deputy Governor Yaseen Anwar has said that the central bank is committed to provide a supportive legal, policy and regulatory framework for the cultivation of Islamic banking in the country.
He was delivering an address at an event, 'Narrowing the gap between philosophical underpinnings of Islamic finance and its practices', presented by Dr Abbas Mirakhor, a renowned economist and Islamic finance export and former International Monetary Fund

ISLAMABAD - Eminent experts on environment said on Thursday that the devolution of Environment Ministry and abolition of "Pakistan Environmental Protection Act 1997" would badly affect environment of the country.
Speaking at a seminar, they raised questions about the fate of Pakistan Environmental Protection Council (PEPC) headed by the prime minister after the abolition of environmental protection act. They said the devolution of ministry of environment would be a disaster for

ISLAMABAD - Brick-kilns emitting poisonous smoke, which is deteriorating air quality of Rawalpindi and Islamabad but the authorities concerned have turned a blind eye to the environmental degradation.
Years ago, the Environment Ministry had identified 95 kilns in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as injurious to environment and planned to demolish them for pollution-free environment but the Environment Ministry officials demolished only those 27 kilns in Loi Bher whose owners already

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Controversy over monitoring of federal capital's environment after the devolution of Ministry of Environment is creating tension among the employees in Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA).
Officials in both departments said that the higher authorities in Pak-EPA and CDA had been discussing transfer of powers to monitor the environment of the capital.
"The discussion turned into controversy,

ISLAMABAD - A two-member Supreme Court bench on Wednesday directed the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (PEPA) to submit a comprehensive report on the environmental hazards in Choa Saiden Shah.
The bench of Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa was hearing petition filed by around 0.25 million inhabitants of Choa Saiden Shah through their counsel Sajid Mehmood Sheikh against environmental hazards in the area.
Mehmood told the court that 1.5 lac