Death of a delta: Pakistan’s Indus sinks and shrinks
- 05-Aug-2025
KHARO CHHAN: Salt crusts crackle underfoot as Habibullah Khatti walks to his mother’s grave to say a final goodbye before he abandons his parched island village on Pakistan’s Indus delta. Seawater intrusion into the delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea in the south of the country, has triggered the collapse of farming […]
UN recognises Pakistan’s Indus Delta for global convention
- 09-Apr-2023
ISLAMABAD: The shrinking delta of the Mighty River Indus of Pakistan has emerged on the United Nations (UN) radar after it accepted to create a global convention on all deltas of the world to ensure its protection against rising climate change impacts casting serious impact on its nature and habitat. The development occurred after a […]
Dams or no dams? Indus Delta people have something to say
- 21-Sep-2022
“We are not averse to the idea of dams, per se. Build them as you may,” says Khuda Bux Lashari, a social worker from Ghorabari union committee in Thatta, an area in the midst of Indus river mouth (theoretically) and sea creeks of Arabian Sea, although he adds, “…but its the malice of intent behind […]
‘2.4 million acres of land in Indus Delta eroded by seawater’
- 08-Jun-2022
ISLAMABAD: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the 2.4 million acres of land in Indus Delta has been eroded by the rising seawater. In his message on the World Oceans Day, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister on Wednesday said that according to a research report the deltas along oceans are facing rapid extinction. Bilawal said that the […]
World Rivers Day: Indus Delta at the mercy of advancing Arabian Sea
- 14-Mar-2019
KARACHI: The World Rivers Day or annual International Day of Action for Rivers being celebrated on March 14 (today) to salute the life-giving waters on mother Earth, and honor all those who have worked hard to ensure that our rivers continue flowing . Indus, is a mighty river, flowing in this region of the world, sustaining […]