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Pakistan's new textile policy aims to double exports
2015-02-16 14:44:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Pakistan's second Textile Policy aims to double the country's textile and clothing exports to US$26bn in the next five years as it seeks to reap full benefits of the EU GSP+ scheme.
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Pakistans new climate change ministry merely cosmetic
2015-02-06 05:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dawn: Pakistan has elevated the climate change division to a ministry but opinion is divided on whether it will translate into effective policy making or remain a merely cosmetic initiative. The Pakistan governments decision to upgrade its climate change division to the status of a ministry has experts divided down the middle with some welcoming it and others sceptical on whether it will prove to be effective in formulating policy. The federal government upped the status of the division to a ministry...
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ministry
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In shadow of glacial lakes, Pakistans mountain communities look to climate adaptation
2015-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Khaliq-ul-Zaman, a farmer from the remote Bindo Gol valley in northern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has long lived under the shadow of disaster. With plenty of fertile land and fresh water, this scenic mountain valley would be an ideal dwelling place - if not for the constant threat of the surrounding glacial lakes bursting their ridges and gushing down the hillside, leaving a trail of destruction behind. "We can safely say that over 16,000 have been displaced due to [glacial lake outburst...
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VIDEO: Pakistan's booming fashion industry
2015-01-11 09:47:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The BBC's Shabnam Mahmood has been to the Pakistan Fashion Week event in London to see the fruits of the country's booming fashion industry.
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industry
fashion
booming
Pakistan's coastal villagers retreat as seas gobble land
2015-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For fisherman Sammar Dablo, it was as if "the seawater stole our homes" when land erosion forced his village to relocate further inland on Pakistan's south coast. The people of the fan-shaped Indus Delta, where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea, are among the poorest of the poor, mostly illiterate and living in wooden shacks on the mud flats. As seawater has washed into the delta, destroying thousands of hectares of fertile land and contaminating underground water channels, they survive...
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coastal
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seas
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