Saleem Shaikh

The writer is a guest speaker on climate change and disaster reporting at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) – Islamabad. He is also a media trainer, freelance climate change and development science writer.

Opinions

Saleem ShaikhMarch 22, 2016
597

Averting impending water crisis through climate-smart management in Pakistan

Pakistan is heading fast towards the worst state of water crisis. If not tamed through viable policy measures and mass-scale…
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Opinions

Saleem ShaikhMarch 8, 2016
532

Women’s role in fighting climate change must

In Pakistan, women who constitute the majority of the poor are among the most vulnerable to the detrimental impacts of…
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Featured

Saleem ShaikhFebruary 26, 2016
532

Need for knowledge-sharing, research to address climate impacts on Indus River Basin emphasised

By Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio Kathmandu/Islamabad: Scientists, government policymakers and development experts at an international moot (Feb 16-19) have…
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Featured

Saleem ShaikhJanuary 30, 2016
534

Pakistan unlikely to fight climate change without boosting forest cover, warns climate change secretary Arif Ahmed Khan

By Saleem Shaikh ISLAMABAD, January 30: A target of 159 million tree plantation throughout the country has been set for the…
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Feature

Saleem ShaikhDecember 17, 2015
564

Frequent floods intensify migration, food security in Pakistan’s mountainous north

By Saleem Shaikh Ghizer, Pakistan: Body of Ishaq Khan shivers when he recounts an unfortunate flash flood in 2010, which…
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Averting impending water crisis through climate-smart management in Pakistan

Women’s role in fighting climate change must

Need for knowledge-sharing, research to address climate impacts on Indus River Basin emphasised

Pakistan unlikely to fight climate change without boosting forest cover, warns climate change secretary Arif Ahmed Khan

Frequent floods intensify migration, food security in Pakistan’s mountainous north