Census 2023: Urban spurt, educational crisis and going ‘off-grid’

By Abdul Moiz Malik Published in Dawn on July 19, 2024 KARACHI: Almost a year after the Council of Common Interests (CCI) “unanimously” approved the results of the 2023 digital census, the country’s top data body has released detailed results of the enumeration exercise. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) released data for the 7th Population and […]

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Beating the Heat in Pakistan

Published in earthobservatory.nasa.gov on May 16, 2024 As heat waves become more intense due to climate change, people in cities all over the world are facing more challenging summer conditions. Among them is Lahore, a city in northern Pakistan where only about ten percent of the population has access to air conditioning, and decades of rapid urbanization[…]

Miles to go

Published in Dawn on July 14, 2024 PRIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s budget for the present fiscal year has whipped up seething anger against his administration at home but won him a $7bn package from the IMF to temporarily shore up an embattled economy. An IMF statement says that it has reached a staff-level agreement with Pakistan on[…]