ISLAMABAD, SEPT 19 /DNA/ – Pakistan’s increasing vulnerability to climate change-driven extremes demands integrated and urgent responses at all levels, as the increasing frequency of floods, rising temperatures, and deteriorating water quality pose a threat to the country’s food security, water resources, biodiversity, and livelihoods. While floods have dominated national discussions, rising temperatures, shrinking forest cover, and weak governance capacities pose equally significant risks, all of which undermine resilience. This underscores the importance of ensuring policy implementation, proactive governance, enhancing national water storage capacity, sustainable water management, improving early warningRead More

DNA ISLAMABAD:  Ms. Qurat ul Ain Ali Khawaja — PhD Scholar, Founder of Let Kashmir Decide, and awardees “Pride of Pakistan Award 2025” — has been elected as the Chairperson of the All Pakistan Media Council (Registered). Following the electoral process, she was unanimously chosen, a decision widely recognized by the concerned quarters as a testament to her intellectual and leadership credentials.

Court Reporter ISLAMABAD: Five judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) — namely Justices Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Babar Sattar, Tariq Mah­mood Jahangiri, Saman Rafat and Ejaz Ishaq Khan — submitted separate petitions at the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday. Justice Kayani, Sattar, Jahangiri and Khan’s petitions, all of which bear the same request. According to information available to a Dawn.com court correspondent, Justice Rafat’s petition is similar to those of the other four judges. In their petitions, the judges moved the SC to declare that administrative powers could not beRead More