Things categorized as 'Ahmad Rafay Alam'
September 25th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
Earlier this week, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a one-day summit on climate change and invited nearly 100 world leaders to participate in the run-up to the anticipated new 'climate ...
September 18th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
A jurisdiction war is playing out in the unlikeliest of places. It's been reported that the governor of State Bank of Pakistan has written to the planning commission, "raising objections" ...
September 5th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
One of the conspiracies brewing on the internet is turning out to be frighteningly real. It has been reported that the Government of Pakistan is in negotiation with the Saudi ...
August 28th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
If there is one terrifying prospect of the future it is the shortage of water. This point was driven home in book review of Pakistan's water crisis. Late last year, ...
August 21st by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
The American astronomer Carl Sagan once observed that if Aliens were ever to land on earth, they would quickly conclude that the human race was enslaved by the automobile. Why ...
August 14th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
It is clear that social change is often brought about by technological innovation. The moral brigade never forgets to remind us, for example, that the root cause of ills in ...
July 17th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
Around the world, strong evidence is now coming forward to suggest that spending money on road infrastructure within cities is a waste of money.
But in Karachi, the DHA is planning ...
May 22nd by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
009 is the national year of the environment. The ministry of environment has arranged a roster full of events to raise awareness about the environment this year. Their initiatives are ...
February 13th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
The gift of mobility is one of Allah's many blessings to his Ashraf ul Mukhlukat. The restlessness of the human spirit and the mobility of man are fundamental features of ...
December 11th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
Earlier this year, the governments of India and Pakistan were actually trying to sort out an easier visa process for travellers. Just the type of boring diplomatic work that countries ...
October 27th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
Though the first Islamic tomb-garden in India is Sikandar Lodi’s, it was the Mughals who used it to much greater dramatic affect. Aware that the founder of the dynasty has ...
September 22nd by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
In April, the Office of the QMG Branch at GHQ issued advertisements inviting bids to develop the “commercial plots adjacent/behind Rahat Bakery area . . .[as] residential apartments/offices only.” This ...
August 25th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
Around the world, cities are adapting to the difficulties they face. In the US, the credit crunch and high oil prices are challenging settled notions of urbanism, what a city ...
August 4th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
The committee set up to review the outdoor advertising policy for Lahore has submitted its survey report to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and meets this afternoon. The Government of ...
July 28th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
After the recent election it was generally accepted that the Grand Musharruffian Experiment of welding a new local government administration onto our polity would not be rolled back. Sane counsel ...
