With elections just months away, clearly a lot still needs to be done.

Approximately a fourth of the Pakistani population still defacates in the open.

While natural disasters cannot be averted, they can certainly be better managed.

Need to export wheat to avail higher prices, rising oil costs could again lead to shortages, price hikes in Pakistan.

The existing Indo-Pak water sharing paradigm may no longer be able to address the emergent tensions.

‘Neoliberal security state’ manifests through army’s involvement in fertiliser, ministers in corporate farming.

Prominent US think tanks continue to further demonise the countries with which cooperation is being sought.

The drug trade across the Afghan border is now too sophisticated for any one country to address singlehandedly.

See how countries like the US and its allies rank on it for their recent fiascos in Iraq, Afghanistan.

There is a need for a shift towards sustainable practices. Implementation of NSD Strategy is one good place to start.