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27 February 2017
By:MOHAMMAD HUSSAIN KHAN
Date: February 2017
Source: Dawn
SHRINKING riverine and inland forests have significantly reduced production and supply of wood required for soil fertility, livestock’s fodder, firewood and a growing furniture market.
Acacia wood, which is used in beams to prop up a tunnel…
27 January 2017
Date: 27 January 2017
Source: Daily Times
The South Punjab Minorities Land Rights Forum on Thursday pointed out residential and agricultural land issues, saying the minorities were forced to vacate lands where they had memories of their childhood and origin despite being the indigenous people…
In the 1960s, concerns about whether the world’s farms could produce enough to feed a rapidly growing population were epitomized by India and Pakistan, both of which relied heavily on imported wheat. By 1972, in the midst of the Green Revolution, both countries had achieved self-sufficiency in…
Pakistan’s land-tenure problems are more severe and have been more persistently ignored than nearly any others found on the planet. Though last year’s flood altered Pakistan’s landscape, it did not alter the fact that the vast majority of land in …
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Via ExpressTribune.com
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has said that the lease of 70 villages of district Malir has been cancelled on legal grounds but a fresh survey will be conducted to regularise the genuine villages. “This exercise has been done to get rid of land grabbers who had…
By: Aamir Saeed
Date: January 25th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
HARIPUR, Pakistan, Jan 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Robina Gul has swapped her needle for a trowel. Until recently, the villager from northern Pakistan got by making clothes for family weddings and religious festivals…
By: Correspondent
Date: January 29th 2016
Source: Express Tribune
KARACHI: Feudalism and democracy cannot stand hand in hand, which is why we need to change the entire system as soon as possible.
Yusuf Mastikhan, a senior politician and the Sindh president of the Awami Workers Party, said this…
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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
These Land Watch Asia (LWA)’s Lok Niti journals compile scoping studies from seven…
By: Jan Khaskheli
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: International News Magazine
Indigenous people and local fishermen in one of the poorest parts of the country in recent years have seen various mafia groups on political patronage scrambled to grab lands they have inhabited for generations. …
By: Aslam Shah
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Daily Times
Sindh Assembly issues notification granting leasehold rights to slum dwellers
KARACHI: Thousands of innocent Karachiites are being deprived of their hard-earned lifetime saving in shape of properties encroached upon by the 'katchi…
By: Danish Khan
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: The International News
Due to the colonial history of Pakistan, land distribution is highly skewed in favor of political and social elites. According to estimates, four percent of the wealthiest rural landowners own more than fifty percent of all…
By: PPI
Date: March 20th 2016
Source: Pakistan Today
Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment’s (SCOPE) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the country’s prominent environmentalist, Tanveer Arif, said on Sunday that bad governance was behind Pakistan’s massive deforestation was…