List of Blogs

A. Introduction

B. FLOODS

• Flood relief:Solar Disinfection of Water
• Flood Relief:clean drinking water and PCSIR products
• Flood mitigation: Planning and community participation
• Floods;lack of a communication protocol
• Review of FFC and Flood Management System
• Flood dividends
• Floods and the mighty Indus
• Flood Compensation
• Risk Management: floods and businesses
• Flood Forecasting and Management System in Pakistan
• Flood Management & Map Phobia in Pakistan
• Floods forecasts and Emergency preparedness
• Flood victims: Emergency support vs sustainability
• Floods: Emergency Shelter and Toilets (continued)
• Floods: Emergency Shelters and toilets concept and costs
• Floods and Dams: the right time for discourse and debate
• Floods: water accord and discord in Pakistan
• Floods: irrigation system, abiana and income tax on agricultural incomes?
• Inadequate and delayed relief assistance and the potential for anarchy and destabilisation

C. LAND REFORMS

• Land and Housing Reforms: Innovations and opportunities due to the floods.
• Land (zar, zameen and zan) is one of the THREE.
• Is Land Reform off the Menu?
• Afghan Mineral Resources for Regional Development.
• Land Ownership and Utilization in Pakistan
• Land Reforms: Restructuring Agriculture and Political Power
• Balochistan; Insurgency and Land Reform

D. EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

• University Research: Water & Environment
• University Research: the Floods
• University Research IX :Conclusion
• University Research X: the way forward
• University Research VIII: the case of HEJ and PCSIR
• University Research VII: the antithesis
• University Reseach VI; Agriculture
• University Research V: the incubators
• University Research IV:Bio-sciences
• What an engineering university should be doing at a minimum

• University Research III: Ultimately Public Sector Universities would have to earn some money

• University Research:relevance ,cost-effectiveness and not elitism

• University Research II: Merger of Ministries of Edu and Science

E. POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

• The need and rationale for a Water Policy
• Pakistan Drinking Water Policy
• Mr. President (Musharraf) : What you should be doing?
• Book Review/Comment:Memories of a soldier; 1947, before, during , after
• Dichotomy of Political Power: Persecution or Performance and Capability?
• Why Pakistan Railways is collapsing?
• Floods and the Local Governments

F. CASE OF THE POOR

• Is beggary a menace to be curtailed?
• Insuring the poor.

G. FOOD AND FISHERIES IN THE CONTEXT OF FLOODS

• Fishery cage aquaculture for sustainable Livelihood for the poor,landless and flood victims

• Community based fisheries management
• Floods Recovery: land reform, water rights, in-land fishery and white revolution

H. Appendix

· Pakistan's Development and Energy Challenges: Two new books by Akhtar Ali.

• New Book: Pakistan's Development Challenges: federalism, security and governance.