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Mohsin Leghari

Mohsin Leghari is a former Senator and Punjab Minister for Irrigation and Finance who led major provincial water reforms, including the Punjab Water Policy and Water Act. He is engaged as Senior Water Policy Expert with UNDP Pakistan and a member of the Oxford Climate Leadership Research Centre. The writings are his personal opinions
Opinion

Their Floor, Our Ceiling

Wheat has a calendar, and this week it turned. In Punjab’s rain-fed belt, the agriculture department advised farmers on Monday to begin sowing from October 15. In lower Sindh, where the season runs ahead,…

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Opinion

The Sowing Ledger

Somewhere in south Punjab this evening, a farmer sits on a charpai with a notebook and a calculator, doing the arithmetic that will decide what this country eats next year. He does this every…

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