Stories from Ahmad Rafay Alam
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Environmental pollution and malnutrition
In Pakistan, malnutrition is responsible for 54 per cent of over 10 million deaths per year in children under five
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Failure of urban planning
Like all opportunities, urban development potential can only be tapped once and it has to be tapped correctly.
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Health for the Children of the Monsoon
Provincial govts’ development policies must ensure health impact of climate change are mainstreamed into its policies.
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Water. Now!
Cities need to secure their water supplies by better understanding their catchments, diversifying water resources.
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The next graveyard of empire
No matter how much cash is given in circular-debt, because energy sector is run poorly, its appetite is never sated.
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The ‘Sanitary Revolution’
Improved sanitation allowed cities to grow. Indeed, it spawned the Urban Revolution.
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Moving forward with the BRT
We need more transport projects, but the next ones need to be better planned and better executed.
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Safety in transport and on roads
I can’t help but think of countless tragedies, which could have been prevented by application of: safety.
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Conserving our precious water
How much more can we mine the Indus for our uses without considering how we have destroyed its ecology.
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Clear skies in Spring
By defenestrating Basant from Lahore, you have only taken the colour from your own life.