KhAdim Durrani Quettawaal
Reading news items like the one given below is becoming a very commonplace whereby people express their concerns about Quetta roads and streets being flooded by the overflow of wastewater from the open drains or from the so-called non-existent sewerage system that often gets clogged up by the solid wastes. It is with that issue in mind and with the arrival of 22nd March, a date when World Water Day is celebrated, that I have made an attempt to highlight the present situation relating to the lack of safe water and poor sanitation in the Quetta Valley. Continue reading ‘The sewage & buried seweRage system of Quetta’
Many people from around Pakistan might have heard about the minor volcanic activity that took place recently in the Ziarat valley on January 29, 2010 (Figs: 1, 6 & 8). According to media reports (here, here and here) only days after an earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale, residents of Charri area of Ziarat District of Balochistan witnessed sounds of explosions followed by smoke billowing from the top of the Tor Ghar – the black mountain – and then on Monday night it started spewing lava. It’s worth mentioning here that Charri area is not far from Waam which had been previously hit by a severe earthquake on October 29, 2008. Continue reading ‘Ziarat’s volcanic coughing – an interview with Din Mohammed Kakar’
Recent Comments