The government has deferred the recent increase in electricity prices that sparked countrywide protests Oct 24, 2008
The Indus River System Authority would release additional water from dams for Rabi crops in Punjab and Sindh after November 1, he added, and hydroelectric power production would increase. Several thermal power plants had been closed for maintenance, the minister said, resulting in a 1,500-megawatt drop in production. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
India-Pak ties: Fight to the last drop? Oct 19, 2008
Its Indus River System Authority claims it received just 19,351 cusecs on October 9 and 10,739 cusecs on October 11 at the Marala Head Works against the minimum limit of 55,000 cusecs. The cut in water was far below than the World Bank-mediated deal. (Times of India)
Govt calls top-level meeting of provinces, WAPDA and IRSA Oct 14, 2008
Water and Power Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf will chair the meeting, and the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) chairman will brief the participants ... On Monday, IRSA released 34,000 cusecs of water from the Tarbela reservoir on the Indus River, almost equal to the 32,000 inflow into the dam. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Water row may affect Pakistan-India ties - Zardari Oct 13, 2008
Under the accord, each country controls more than three rivers draining into the Indus river basin. Share. (Reuters India)
Pakistan considers asset sales to bolster economy Sep 9, 2008
9 trillion cubic feet in the Indus River flood plain, may be one of the first big-ticket sales. The field, the second-largest in the country, is valued at about $3 billion. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Zardari marked by legal woes, tragedy Sep 7, 2008
Like many of this Muslim country's elite, he attended Christian missionary schools and a top boarding school on the banks of the Indus River near Hyderabad. He has claimed to hold a bachelor's degree from a business school in London, but his party has been unable to produce a certificate. (Boston Globe)
Pakistani Lawmakers Begin Voting on Next President Sep 6, 2008
Like many of this Muslim country's elite, he attended Christian missionary schools and a top boarding school on the banks of the Indus River near Hyderabad. He has claimed to hold a bachelor's degree from a business school in London, but his party has been unable to produce a certificate or establish what he studied. (Fox News)
How to take a History Exam Aug 23, 2008
One student in a BYU history class wrote about the development of the Indus river valley civilization by traveling in a time machine to India along with Steve Irwin. Steve s concluding monologue that this planet might give older men the opportunity to wear short shorts, high socks and talk in cool accents. (Suite101.com)
Italian K2 climber reaches hospital Aug 7, 2008
"He has some difficulties in walking," Other members of his team were also flown to Skardu, a small northern Pakistani town surrounded by mountains on the Indus river. Oddo expected Confortola to be brought to Islamabad later in the day. (India Times, India)
'Thirty dead' in Pakistan floods Aug 6, 2008
Meanwhile at least six people were reported killed in the flood planes of the Indus river in Punjab province on Monday. Officials said the flood was caused by heavy rains in the northern mountain region. (BBC News -- South Asia)
K2 survivor 'taken to hospital' Aug 6, 2008
Three members of Mr Confortola's support team were also flown by helicopter to Skardu, a small northern Pakistani town surrounded by mountains on the Indus river. Mr Oddo said that he expected the climber to be brought to Islamabad later on Wednesday. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Fall into chaos Aug 5, 2008
Now the Pakistani Taleban are expanding their area of control in the settled areas of the North West Frontier Province and have reached Attock on the Indus river, which is really the cultural and social dividing line between Afghanistan-Central Asia and Punjab and the Indian subcontinent. This is a very dangerous development. (BBC News)
Incorrigible Afghanistan Jul 16, 2008
The capital of the country, Kabul, is located on the Kabul River, which is a tributary of the Indus River, which empties into the Arabian Sea. Afghanistan was a neighbor to India during the rule of the British, as the British Empire extended from Afghanistan to the southern tip of India. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
PAKISTAN'S RISING ISLAMIST TIDE Jul 2, 2008
The bulk of the country's population in the densely populated regions east of the Indus River still hasn't signed up for extremism - but the fundamentalists now enjoy de facto control of most of the Afghan frontier. Why did one Islamabad regime after another let the cancer worsen. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Police say gunmen kill three Shiite Muslims in Pakistan May 10, 2008
Today's attack happened in a town on the Indus River in Pakistan's northwest. A police official says the slain shop owner and his family were at odds with a Sunni Muslim militant group. (WSJA.com, AL)
Deshpande's ashes to be taken to countries she worked in May 7, 2008
Peace activists will meet in the port city of Karachi on Friday to decide on a suitable location for immersing the ashes in the Indus river, B M Kutty, who returned to Karachi last night with some of Deshpande's ashes after attending her funeral in New Delhi, said. Deshpande, 79, died in New Delhi on Thursday. (Hindu)
Rigging Pakistan's elections, one local leader at a time Feb 16, 2008
ATTOCK, Pakistan Like the medieval fort that sits above the Indus River, the face of Tahir Sadiq towers over Attock, adorning billboards, banners draped from buildings and countless placards for Pakistan's national elections Monday. The former army major isn't a candidate, however. (Anchorage Daily News)
New Warbler-like Bird Discovered In Nepal Feb 14, 2008
The other two subspecies of Rufous-vented Prinia, the first one Prinia burnesii burnesii is found in Pakistan in the west along the tributaries of Indus River and adjacent Punjab in India, and the second Prinia burnesii cinerascens is found in Assam in the east along the Bramhaputra river systems and adjoining states of India and Bangladesh. The newly described bird shows somewhat intermediate characters between the two subspecies and appears to form a link between them, is found in the Ganges... (Science Daily)
Landowner Power in Pakistan Election Feb 14, 2008
Bhutto's family has owned this patch of fertile land alongside the Indus River for nearly half a millennium, and on the wall of his stately home is the family tree to prove it. (He is a cousin of the assassinated Benazir Bhutto. (Time.com)
First election rally since Bhutto death Feb 10, 2008
Three-tier security searchesPolice and party volunteers conducted a three-tier search of people who passed through scanners and were then body-searched before entering the stadium at Thatta, which in centuries past was a regional capital dominating the Indus River delta and is now a World Heritage site. Bhutto-related rallies have in the past been scenes of bloodshed, not least her own. (MSNBC -- International)
Winged hope - Nepal's new bird discovery delights scientists Feb 6, 2008
Hem Sagar Baral of Bird Conservation Nepal said the find is exciting because while the other two types belong to Pakistan's Indus river basin and the Brahmaputra of north-east India, this Nepalese sub-species fills the gap. The latest find "appears to form the link" between the two pre-existing sub-species, he said. (BBC News -- Science)
URS replaces head of new Washington division Jan 12, 2008
The company focused on heavy civil engineering projects, including Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in Pakistan, one of the largest earth-filled dams in the world. Zarges worked 20 years at United Engineers & Constructors, a unit of Raytheon bought by Washington Group in 2000. (East Bay Business Times, CA)
Fatima Bhutto Jan 11, 2008
They offered a simple dinner - pizza in the box - with apologies: they had just returned from their ancestral home in Larkana, 200 miles to the north, further up the Indus river, where they had been visiting prisoners in the local female jail. We ate in the upstairs lounge of 70 Clifton, the sprawling house built by Fatima's great-grandfather, Shah Nawaz, in 1954. (Guardian Unlimited)
Some fear Pakistan could splinter apart Jan 9, 2008
A specific gripe: Punjabi irrigation projects diverted waters from the Indus River before they got downriver to Sindh. "Punjab takes all the water. We get the leftovers," says Ibrahim Magsi, a farmer and village leader outside Tando Jam. (USA Today -- News)
Acute shortage of water may hit Rabbi crops hard Jan 6, 2008
ISLAMABAD: The prevailing water shortage may lead to a worse power crisis in future, and affect Rabbi crop targets as the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) has informed the government that the country will be facing over 30 percent water shortage in the coming months, sources told Daily Times on Saturday. The country is facing a shortfall of around 3,000 to 39,000 megawatt (MW) power deficit per day because of the water shortage, according to officials. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
How life goes on in Pakistan Jan 6, 2008
Once it has freed itself from the sprawling suburbs of the metropolis, the carriageway slices north across scrubby, yellow, sandy plains, past Hyderabad and Nawabshah, cities with a joint population of two million, then follows the Indus river up towards small towns such as Moro, which even in Pakistan few can place on a map. At Moro you turn off the main road and, weaving to avoid potholes, carts towed by oxen or battered tractors, goats and bunches of small, snotty, filthy children, head... (Guardian Unlimited)
The Sweet Season Nov 26, 2007
Alexander the Great recorded that he found something he called a honey-bearing reed during one of his expeditions down the Indus River in 325 B.C. Dioscorides, a Greek physician who lived during the reign of the Roman Emperor Nero wrote about a hard honey called saccharum that he described as being grainy, like salt and brittle between the teeth, but of sweet taste. As early as the year 1,000 A.D. we also know that sugar was being grown in Spain the Moors had brought it with it with them and... (Suite101.com)
Pakistan II: The general and the president Nov 8, 2007
Only last month Pakistan's navy, in an audacious move, set up a barbecue business on the banks of the Indus River about 400 miles away from the Arabian Sea it's supposed to protect. 1. (International Herald Tribune)
Bhutto Bombings Enhance Election Prospects, If She Is Able to Stay Alive Oct 22, 2007
Bhutto noted new threats to her life and predicted how she might be killed: Militants, posing as police officers, will be sent either to her home in Karachi or to her ancestral home in Larkana, an Indus River city about 190 miles (300 km) to the north. Amid such threats, she may have no choice but to stage more controlled events, her supporters said. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
The new Taliban Oct 14, 2007
It was a bloody week for everyone as half a dozen ragged conflicts raged across a stretch of land the size of Britain, from the Indus river to the central highlands of Pakistan. The weekend before had seen an American soldier and a handful of Afghans killed in Kabul; last Monday saw the latest in a spate of suicide bombings attributed to the Taliban in Afghanistan when a bicycle bomber hit a convoy of Nato troops moving through the British-held town of Lashkar Gah, injuring two civilians. (Guardian Unlimited)
Climate for conflict, not just warming Oct 14, 2007
India and Pakistan are already enmeshed in disputes over rights to the Indus River, which supports the largest irrigation system on Earth. Turkey, Syria and Iraq are at odds over who controls the headwaters of the life-sustaining Tigris-Euphrates system. (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
This Week's Tips: Oct 14, 2007
From my double room with a sun porch, I had a spectacular view of the glacier above the Indus River valley. It had the standard squat toilet and no TV, but for only 500 rupees (about $12. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
The greatest party on earth? Oct 4, 2007
A sleepy town on the Indus river, Sehwan Sharif is on the heroin smuggling route that runs through Sindh from Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea. In summer it is a sauna - stepping from my air-conditioned car last month, the heat carried a five-knuckle wallop. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Five hurt in Pakistani protest over ex-PM Sep 10, 2007
The firing occured after Sharif's supporters tried to push their way across a bridge over the Indus River, trying to reach the capital Islamabad, where Sharif landed after seven year in exile. Police had blocked the bridge. (AlertNet)
River dolphin population 'dying' Sep 3, 2007
WWF river dolphin initiative coordinator Anna Forslund said China's Yangtze river, the Mekong river in Cambodia, the Ganges river in India and the Indus river system in Pakistan were among the world's most endangered rivers as evidenced by their dwindling river dolphin populations. Ms Forslund said many people had never heard of river dolphins, which were smaller than marine dolphins, had a longer snout and were often blind, but they were one of the most threatened species in the world with some... (The Age)
Beyond Mesopotamia: A New View Of The Dawn Of Civilization Aug 4, 2007
For decades, school children have learned that human civilization emerged about 5000 years ago along the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia, along the Nile, and along the Indus River ... Though their efforts are at an early stage, Lawler writes, many of the archaeologists say the finds are rewriting historical understanding of human civilization by offering "a far more complex picture in which dozens of urban centers thrived between Mesopotamia and the Indus, trading commodities and, possibly,... (Science Daily)
Lost foreverWhy parts of Pakistan are disappearing beneath the waves Aug 4, 2007
Keti Bandar was once a thriving river port in the Indus river delta region in southern Pakistan, with impressive public buildings, a customs office and warehouses for exports ... Over the millennia, the Indus river cut some 17 major and numerous minor creeks in the region as it disgorged into the Arabian Sea in the south ... The first major irrigation canal on the Indus river system was built by the British in the Punjab in 1859. (BBC News -- South Asia)
URS gets antitrust OK in Washington Group buy Jul 12, 2007
The company focused on heavy civil engineering projects, including Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in Pakistan, one of the largest earth-filled dams in the world. URS will pay Washington Group stockholders $43. (San Francisco Business Times, CA)
Brown: Farmers Losing Ground Jul 1, 2007
Pakistan's two large reservoirs, Mangla and Tarbela, which store Indus River water for the country's vast irrigation network, are losing roughly 1 percent of their storage capacity each year as they fill with silt from deforested watersheds. Ethiopia, a mountainous country with highly erodible soils on steeply sloping land, is losing an estimated 1 billion tons of topsoil a year, washed away by rain. (Zmag.org)
School honors Apr 10, 2007
Six students in grades 4 to 8 Seth Farb, Nicole Jennings, Russell Moser, Kyler Schubkegel, Aidan Mathis and Lance Kidder knew that it was the Indus River. Because of their geographic knowledge, each student won their respective school s geography bee earlier this year. (Mount Vernon Skagit Valley Herald, WA)
Army to try three for dumping Kargil arms Apr 4, 2007
CHANDIGARH: The Army on Tuesday started court martial proceedings against two colonels and a junior commissioned officer charged with dumping into the Indus river ammunition worth Rs 20 lakhs meant for the Kargil front. The ammunition was found in the riverbed on August 20, 2005, three years after the 4/8 Gorkha Regiment had moved into the icy battlefield. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Asia's river systems face collapse Mar 24, 2007
Water in the Indus River is so clouded that the native dolphin has in effect lost its eyesight and has to detect prey and other objects through sound waves. More than half of all the industrial waste and sewage in China flows into a single waterway, the Yangtze. (Asia Times Online)
Going Nowhere Fast: Top Rivers Face Mounting Threats Mar 22, 2007
Even without warmer temperatures threatening to melt Himalayan glaciers, the Indus River faces scarcity due to over-extraction for agriculture. Fish populations, the main source of protein and overall life support systems for hundreds of thousands of communities worldwide, are also being threatened. (Science Daily)
WWF warns of freshwater crisis Mar 20, 2007
The extraction of water for agriculture is also taking its toll on rivers around the world, WWF said, with India's Indus river a notable example cited by the study. Over-extraction can lead to water scarcity and severely threaten freshwater fish populations, which serve as an important food source for tens of millions of people worldwide. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
River or freshwater dolphins Mar 15, 2007
The Indus River Dolphin (Platanista minor) is found in the Indus River in Pakistan, mostly in the Sind and Punjab provinces. It is uniformly grey brown. (Suite101.com)
World Bank rules on Kashmir dam Feb 13, 2007
The Indus Water Treaty of 1960 divided the Indus river waters between the two nations [EPA ... The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 divided the Indus river - into which the Chenab flows - between the two countries and bars India from interfering with the flow into Pakistan while allowing it to generate electricity. (Aljazeera.Net)
Aussie tourist dies in avalanche Feb 8, 2007
Skiers gather around the body of a 31-year-old Melbourne man, believed to be Shaun Kratzer, after an avalanche in Apherwat in Indian Kashmir. Jane HolroydFebruary 8, 2007 - 4:03PM. (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
Wrong war, wrong time Feb 6, 2007
But Washington should nevertheless remember that the modern nation of Iran traces its roots back to ancient Persia and that beneath every Iranian lies a Persian who views his country in the context of "Greater Iran." Even before Rome conquered the Western world, the lands controlled by a series of Persian empires stretched from the Caucasus to the Indus River, a cultural and sometimes political arc that not so long ago contained Iraq and Afghanistan and much, much more. It is delusional to... (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
A land of culture, history and ancient civilization Jan 21, 2007
The majestic flow of the Indus River that continually meanders through the mountains across the country to reach the ocean and the ruins of hundreds of Buddhist monasteries are silent testimony to long-forgotten Buddhist empires from Central Asia ... As you travel further down the Indus River you'll stop at the ruins of Harappa, the ancient city of the Indus Valley, which is home to one of the earliest and most developed civilizations of the oriental world ... It's the province where Alexander... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
INVISIBLE BORDER Jan 11, 2007
Afghans say it was imposed under duress and robbed Afghanistan of Pashtun lands to the west of the Indus river. MILITANTS, SMUGGLERS. (AlertNet)
Week of January 1 Jan 8, 2007
This week, millions of Hindus headed to the Indus River for a holy ritual. . (CNN -- Education)
