‘Pakistan suffering heavy losses from Indian mills emissions’

[OTTOMAN]

The tranist aid agreement signed by Asif Ali Zardari regime is a reason of bigger loss..... this loss of $2billion is peanut.

 

[kaku1]

Aren't you forgetting India is responsible for the inevitable creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh?

This is not on topic.

But I suggest you to read Splitting India series ( 8 part series), thats a marvelous piece on history of India and Pak. Written by a Pak scholar. Its marvelous.

Its long, but I suggest you to read in a one go.

 

[OTTOMAN]

There is a sewage coming to Lahore from India, and last year polio virus was found in same sewage but Nawaz Sharif decided to keep send bouquet of flowers to modi, instead.

 

[metronome]

KARACHI: Apart from damaging public health and crop cultivation, heavy fog mainly created by hazardous emissions from the coal-based Indian steel mills are causing a loss of $2 billion annually to Pakistan’s aviation industry.

The Sindh coast doesn’t face the threat of complete drowning from the intruding sea by 2060 as was recently reported in the press, but there are all indications that Pakistan would be seriously impacted by changes in weather conditions, which would become more intense in the coming years. Building dams could help Pakistan prevent flooding.

These were some important points highlighted by deputy director general of the meteorological department Dr Ghulam Rasool at a press briefing held on Saturday. It was arranged by Green Media Initiative in collaboration with the Karachi Press Club.

Speaking to journalists, Dr Rasool said that though Pakistan’s case was briefly discussed in last year’s report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists in the country had detailed information on climate change that would impact the country in the coming years.

“Pakistan ranks 10th among countries that would suffer the most from climate change. Every aspect of the phenomenon would impact us. Our coasts are now more vulnerable to tropical cyclones as their intensity would increase in the Arabian Sea and reduce in the Bay of Bengal,” he said, adding that sea level rise would contribute to sea intrusion.

According to Dr Rasool, of the total 8,123 glaciers in Pakistan, only 8,000 are advancing while the rest are reducing. The Siachen Glacier is the fastest melting glacier in the world. The deployment of armed forces of both Pakistan and India in that region is also contributing to decline in the ice mass.

“The change in monsoon pattern would aggravate flooding in rivers. Although intense monsoon would be experienced in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, flooding would occur in Sindh and Balochistan that might be experiencing a dry spell at that time,” he said.

Late, early or prolonged onset of monsoon, he said, would badly impact cultivation.

“Tarbela and Mangla are our only water reservoirs. Their water storage capacity has already reduced by 35pc due to silt deposits,” he said.

He favoured smaller dams but said that they couldn’t work in heavy rain scenarios. “It is up to us how we make use of that water. Either we let it flood and devastate our land and people, or conserve it.”

He rejected press reports on the submergence of Karachi, Thatta and Badin by 2060 and said there was no scientific basis for that statement. “But, sea level rise would contribute to sea intrusion and affect land agricultural productivity.”

On Karachi, he said that the city had expanded out of proportion and there was a need that the government banned its further expansion and established another city to house more people.

Trans-boundary pollution, he told the audience, was spreading. “It’s the wind blowing from the east to the west that brings pollutants to Pakistan and then these coal emissions spread to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and (now) Sukkur,” he said.

The hazardous emissions, he said, were affecting the aviation industry, public health and crop cultivation.

“The fog gets intense during January and December and is broken only with a rain spell. The cloud cover prevents plants to carry out photosynthesis,” he said.

‘Pakistan suffering heavy losses from Indian mills emissions’ - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

@Norwegian @SrNair @metronome @ito

I imagine any kind of negative impact as a result of coal emissions from Indian plants would first and foremost affect.. India, right ?

aviation 2 billion dollar loss annually ? they should do a feasibility study and see if investing in CAT 2/3 ils systems in airports in affected areas and training their pilots might help offset the losses.

sounds like a load of bs though, unless we're using ancient dharmic technology to blow all the pollutants into the land of pure

 

[A1Kaid]

In short INDIA is responsible for everything. Now Pakistan will say its a climate terrorism by India.
I don't get it. I don't know much about still mills but as far as I know most of still mills are in eastern part of India. So the pollution has to cross whole India east to west to reach pakistan.

Honestly, it doesn't make much sense

China burns ~50% of the world's coal and accounts for ~25% of all carbon dioxide emissions. But Chinese emission is halal you know and doesn't cause any problem Pak aviation. Its always India ...

Go study geography first and you will understand why you're stupid.

 

[suresh1773]

Go study geography first and you will understand why you're stupid.

Please elaborate me on this