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is a journalist based in Islamabad, Pakistan.  

All articles of Imran Mukhtar

Rural infrastructure

Pakistan’s rural infrastructure is inadequate

Rural communities generally lack good public services and have too few economic opportunities. The climate crisis is compounding problems.

Constitutional law

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has been defanged

Why Islamabad’s military-backed government will get a chief justice of its own choice

Constitutional law

Judicial independence under attack in Pakistan

Islamabad’s military-backed government wants to pass a constitutional amendment which, according to critics, would put at risk citizens’ fundamental rights.

Polycrisis

Pakistan’s profound poly crisis

Credible elections would help to sort out the mess, but can leaders in Islamabad make them happen?

Extreme weather

Climate impacts compound Pakistan’s pre-existing problems

Why this summer’s floods will reduce food security in Pakistan in the long run

Flooding

Pakistan is paying price for neglect of climate adaptation

Not having contributed much to climate change, Pakistanis suffer impacts

Pakistan

Some poor people depend on garbage scavenging in Islamabad

In Pakistan, informal waste pickers manage about 50 % of municipal waste

Labour rights

Dangerous cotton harvest

Mostly women pick cotton in Pakistan – they are poorly paid and exposed to health risks

Agriculture

How the climate crisis affects cotton production in Pakistan

Rising temperatures have contributed to a 50 % decline in cotton production in Pakistan

Health hazards

In Pakistan, toxins put the poor particularly at risk

Pakistan’s laws to control chemical pollution are hardly enforced

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