Amid growing concerns over water scarcity and climate change impacts on agriculture, experts at the 19th Agri Asia Conference 2026 held at Expo Centre Lahore said that artificial intelligence, drones, ...

In many peri-urban and irrigated areas of Pakistan, nitrate concentrations exceed well beyond the WHO recommended limits ...

MARI, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Obaid ur Rehman hoped to grow water-hungry cucumbers and capsicum peppers on land he'd bought in an arid area of eastern Pakistan - but the available ...

The irrigation system in Upper Bara, Khyber, constructed nearly a century ago, has fallen into significant disrepair due to years of neglect. According to sources, the system, which was built in the ...

On April 6, Wajahat Hussain, a Sindhi human rights lawyer, spoke at a protest against the planned Cholistan Canal Project on the Indus River in Pakistan. “We will continue fighting against the recent ...

Pakistan can currently store only about 30 days of river flow, leaving the country vulnerable to seasonal water shortages and ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is pausing a key canal irrigation project, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Thursday, adding that no new canals will be built until a special committee formed to ...

Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal has presented a detailed, multi-dimensional national strategy aimed at addressing Pakistan's escalating water crisis, emphasising the need for a coordinated, ...

PAKISTAN’S water crisis is often framed in terms of scarcity. Increasingly, it is also a crisis of ...