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The writer, a Lahore-based lawyer, is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and founder and president of the Center for International Investment and Commercial Arbitration

The disaster of international arbitration of RPPs

by Rana Sajjad Ahmad September 22, 2017

The writer works with Pattan Development Organisation and can be reached at bari@pattan.org

Disaster risk reduction without fixing disaster liability

by Sarwar Bari July 29, 2017

Flames and smoke billow as firefighters deal with a serious fire in the Grenfell Tower apartment block at Latimer Road in West London. PHOTO: REUTERS

World

Five London towers evacuated over fire safety fear

by afp June 24, 2017

Chinese military police and rescue workers are seen at the site of a landslide in in Xinmo village, Diexi town of Maoxian county, Sichuan province on June 24, 2017. Around 100 people are feared buried after a landslide smashed through their village in southwest China's Sichuan Province early Saturday, local officials said, as they launched an emergency rescue operation PHOTO: AFP

World

Around 100 people feared buried in China landslide

by afp June 24, 2017

A picture taken on June 18, 2017 shows a forest in flames during a wildfire near the village of Mega Fundeira. Portugal declared three days of national mourning from June 18, 2017 after the most deadly forest fire in its recent history, raging through the centre of the country. The fire, which broke out June 17, 2017 in the Pedrogao Grande district, had killed at least 62 people and injured more than 50, according to the latest official update by Sunday afternoon. PHOTO: AFP

World

62 killed, 62 injured in Portugal forest fire

by afp June 19, 2017

Infectious diseases

Averting disaster

by editorial April 12, 2017

The writer is a former interior secretary and former ambassador

A blessing or an unmitigated disaster?

by Rustam Shah Mohmand January 21, 2017

The writer is an American-born Brazilian agronomist and writer, and has served as Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation

From crisis to development: boosting agriculture

by José Graziano Da Silva May 23, 2016

A damaged house in Charun Owir village of Chitral district. PHOTO: MUHKAMUDDIN

Life on the margins

by editorial May 3, 2016

This photograph taken on April 21, 2016, shows a view of a fire escape at a Bangladesh garment factory in Dhaka. PHOTO: AFP

World

‘Rana Plazas everywhere’: Danger still haunts Bangladesh

by afp April 22, 2016