The past decade can be termed as the decade of disastrous devolution in Pakistan. First, it was the unchecked grassroots devolution which wreaked havoc with the district management systems under the garb of responsive local governance and now it is the constitutionally driven devolution which is demolishing various federal structures in the name of provincial

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India and Pakistan seem to be on a collision course around the issue of water. In the last 26 years, the two countries have held 13 rounds of secretary-level talks on the issue of India’s right to build the Wullar Barrage. At this week’s 14th round of talks, both sides, as expected, showed little flexibility:

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NEW DELHI: The government has drawn the attention of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) secretariat to the terms that was agreed upon at Cancun in December 2010, but have not been reflected in sections of the released document. The Union ministry of environment and forests had demanded a host of changes.

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A United Nations conference on the world’s poorest countries adopted a plan Friday that stresses the importance of foreign investment and the private sector in lifting millions of people out of poverty. The fourth Conference of the Least Developed Countries ended with the goal of halving the number of the current 48 Least Developed Countries,

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The EIA Resource and Response Centre in New Delhi has been following the process of environmental clearances and has been consistently trying to look at the rate of clearances granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The last one year has became important given the fact that the Ministry of Environment and Forests has

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Skeptics meet Warmists at Cambridge: Entourages are not something that delegates bring to a conference. Especially if the delegate is a humble public sector scientist. But the private invitation-only event I attended at Downing College Cambridge this week was no ordinary conference. It was an attempt to bring together leading climate scientists and IPCC figures

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