Abid Hussain

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Abid Hussain

Why is Pakistan’s new canal project sparking water shortage fears? Protesters fear than a plan to modernise agriculture could leave the lower riparian province of Sindh without water. Islamabad, Pakistan – The Pakistan government has launched an ambitious agricultural project with the aim of boosting food security in the South Asian nation of 240 million people. A …

4 weeks ago | aljazeera.com | Abid Hussain

Islamabad, Pakistan - The Pakistan government has launched an ambitious agricultural project with the aim of boosting food security in the South Asian nation of 240 million people. A network of six canals will be built across the country to irrigate millions of acres of barren lands as part of the $3.3bn (945 billion rupees) project called Green Pakistan Initiative (GPI), which was launched by the country's powerful army chief General Asim Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in 2023.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Abid Hussain

3 days agoIn late 2024, shortly before a ceasefire curbed the violence in Gaza, I was on a monthlong medical mission to Al-Aqsa Hospital, in central Gaza, lending my emergency-medicine expertise to local doctors. Most of these doctors were displaced themselves, their homes destroyed, but they continued to …

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Abid Hussain

Islamabad, Pakistan - When Ayesha Khan, a mother of four, was buying groceries for her family this week, sugar was high on her shopping list. A few miles away in the corridors of power, Pakistan's government and bureaucrats were trying to thrash out a fix for sugar's soaring prices. But for Khan, buying sugar was a necessity.

1 month ago | msn.com | Abid Hussain

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