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afia salam

@afiasalam

Freelance journalist, used to write mostly on cricket, now more on environment, climate change, gender issues and media ethics

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Gaza Isn’t Starving, It Is Being Starved This isn’t some kind of unfortunate famine caused by a drought or natural disaster. It is a deliberately manufactured starvation campaign, implemented with genocidal intent. Reading by Tim Foley.

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A famine expert on Gaza: "There is no case since WWII of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled." He notes the Israeli judge on the International Court of Justice agreed with the order to provide humanitarian aid. that Israel ignored. x.com/SaulStaniforth…

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Irish MP for the European Parliament: "We granted Israel immunity to continue its genocide in Gaza. As Europe, we lost our reputation and lost our moral authority!"

Ahmad Ali Gul (@ahmdaligul) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Encroaching waterways for real estate greed, under-designing culverts, drainage channels, and bridges should be a criminal offence. When profit > safety, concrete drowns citizens. Whats the responsibility of the state in protecting its citizens' from this man-made disaster?

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Why is this happening in one of the most expensive housing communities in the country? Well, it’s because DHA (along with Bahria Town) has spent more than two decades destroying the natural drainage of the Sawan river. For example, just next to DHA 5, the river’s flow was

Why is this happening in one of the most expensive housing communities in the country?

Well, it’s because DHA (along with Bahria Town) has spent more than two decades destroying the natural drainage of the Sawan river. For example, just next to DHA 5, the river’s flow was
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On the adjacent edge of DHA 5, the river made a sharp turn, formed naturally likely due to fast-flow of water barging in and forming a wide shallow patch up until the cliffs. Over time, this wide patch was thinned down by nearly 100 metres and curved out as well. You can also

On the adjacent edge of DHA 5, the river made a sharp turn, formed naturally likely due to fast-flow of water barging in and forming a wide shallow patch up until the cliffs.

Over time, this wide patch was thinned down by nearly 100 metres and curved out as well.

You can also
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While looking at these images, you can also now see the drastic changes done to set up the Pine Hills Golf Course. All the vegetation, which would erstwhile be useful to slow down the “flash flooding” is gone. Replaced by some sort of pools, and a major road and walls on the

While looking at these images, you can also now see the drastic changes done to set up the Pine Hills Golf Course.

All the vegetation, which would erstwhile be useful to slow down the “flash flooding” is gone. Replaced by some sort of pools, and a major road and walls on the
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Here it is finally... a well researched report on how cricket world may spin out of control... pun intended.... due to #climatechange. It is a wakeup call for sports journalists, & wider sporting fraternity, especially the management, to the looming threat of Climate Disruption

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اسوقت کم ازکم 6 ہزار ایکسیویٹر مشینیں قانونی اور غیر قانونی طور پر گلگت سے لے کر شکردرہ کوہاٹ تک سونے کی مائننگ کررہی ہیں اس میں نوے فیصد غیر قانونی لگی ہوئی ہیں جبکہ خیر آباد کے نزدیک چائنیز بھی پلانٹ لگا رہے ہیں ایوریج ایک مشین تقریبا 6سے10 گرام سونا نکال رہی ھے سمجھ لیں اربوں

اسوقت کم ازکم 6 ہزار ایکسیویٹر مشینیں قانونی اور غیر قانونی طور پر گلگت سے لے کر شکردرہ کوہاٹ تک سونے کی مائننگ کررہی ہیں اس میں نوے فیصد غیر قانونی لگی ہوئی ہیں جبکہ خیر آباد کے نزدیک چائنیز بھی پلانٹ لگا رہے ہیں ایوریج ایک مشین تقریبا 6سے10 گرام سونا نکال رہی ھے سمجھ لیں اربوں
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اُن سے شدید سیاسی اختلاف کے باوجود ہم یہ سمجھتے ہیں کہ ڈاکٹر یاسمین رشید کو سُنائی جانے والی سزا انصاف نہیں انتقام ہے۔ مُلک کو اس مُوذی دائرہ (vicious circle) سے نکالنے کی ضرورت ہے۔

اُن سے شدید سیاسی اختلاف کے باوجود ہم یہ سمجھتے ہیں کہ ڈاکٹر یاسمین رشید کو سُنائی جانے والی سزا انصاف نہیں انتقام ہے۔ مُلک کو اس مُوذی دائرہ (vicious circle) سے نکالنے کی ضرورت ہے۔
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This should have been headlined and shouted off about in news bulletins as the most important happening bbc.com/news/articles/…

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Engaging with a new constituency .. that of Chief Financial Officers… a longish conversation but do find time to listen youtu.be/HnrB57WI8UU

Javed Mahar (@javedmahar7) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Economies & Ecosystems have many things in common. Recognising the interconnectedness is the first step towards crafting solutions.

Syed Rizwan Mehboob (@syedrizwanmehb1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Relish the graceful, imperious flight by one of the world's heaviest (and rarest) land birds - GIB - in the vastness of Pakistan's Cholistan desert Like elegant cover drives by Brian Lara or Sangakara, GIB seems to have all the time in world to complete it's fluid glide

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🇺🇸 The Glassworker - Pakistan’s official submission to the Oscars, is coming to theaters across North America with Watermelon Pictures - more announcements coming soon!

🇺🇸 The Glassworker - Pakistan’s official
submission to the Oscars, is coming to theaters across North America with Watermelon Pictures  - more announcements coming soon!
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They jump like Springbok & cruise like Impala A group of Cholistan desert Chinkara display 3 peculiar characteristics of species - When alarmed, they jump upward to see the danger - cruise zigzag & then stop & look back (last habit is a weakness exploited by cruel hunters)

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A matter of great pride.... Thanks Sindh Forest and Wildlife Department, & partners like #IUCN_Pakistan, WWF Pakistan community organizations, corporates, govt depts who earned this accolade for Pakistan. pakobserver.net/pakistans-mang… #WorldDayForConservationofMangroves #theme2025 #ProtectOurWetlands