Munir Ghazanfar

Lahore School of Economics · Department of Environmental Sciences

Disaster and Help in Balakot contextualises the perceptions of the people of Balakot of post earthquake social change especially the role of cash compensation in the creation of a new ecology.

Despite the high revenue (over 60%) Cameroon obtains from agriculture; it has been abandoned to the old and very few people in the community. Given the alarming rate of unemployment among youths in Cameroon, agriculture is perceived as a promising sector to improve on the situation by policy makers. However, despite government’s and AFOP’s (Apui à...

This paper analyses and condenses numerous individual and focus group interviews about life and social trends in Bhera. Our findings paint a declensionist 1 picture of Bhera. Food has deteriorated; there is no industry but industrial food produced with agrochemicals a la Green Revolution abound. Women are getting higher education in much larger num...

Soviet Union and China were two major revolutions of the twentieth century. However, both have changed course from socialism to market economy. It is generally believed it happened because the revolutions proved inefficient and unsustainable in economic terms. According to Mao it was because of class war and the question of who would win had still...

This study documents the deteriorating riverine environment of Sindh. Previous studies have also highlighted this issue but the referencing and documentation is generally fragmentary. The environmental case of Sindh is contested by the federal government so for the purposes of this study we have decided to use predominantly official data, officiall...

Kalabagh Dam (KBD) project holds a unique place in Pakistan's policy making history. It has generated significant heated debate and controversy for a very long time. Three out of the country's four provinces have refused to go along with this project. However, in spite of the heated debate facts on KBD are not transparent, and the case of smaller p...

The 7.6 magnitude shallow focus earthquake of October 8, 2005, with an epicenter few km NNE of Muzaffarabad, Kashmir, changed the lives and perceptions of the affected millions as well as of those not so affected. This article discusses such physical aspects of the earthquake as origin, geology, prediction, measurement and response of civil structu...

We document the structure and kinematics of the southeastern part of the fold-and-thrust belt of the Pakistani Himalaya. Field analysis documents the importance of strike–slip faulting associated with folding. Accordingly, a transpression regime is inferred to be responsible for variable amounts of shortening, from fault block to fault block. The a...

Numerous changes have recently taken place in the domain of higher education. Most of these changes have led to intense debate between forces pushing them and those resisting them. In Pakistan too, there is currently a passionate and ongoing discussion between the Higher Education Commission, which is the main instrument for these reforms, and seve...

We present a geological map, detailed structural description and new subdivisions of the Indus Suture Zone lithologies in northeast Pakistan (Lower Swat region). The Indus Suture Zone is a dominantly fore-arc related assemblage obducted onto the Indian Plate. Initial southward thrusting was followed by the reactivation of the Indus Suture as a duct...

Proc. National Symposium on Economic Geology of Pakistan

In the Naran region of the Pakistan Himalayas, a regionally distributed second generation of folds results from northward-directed shear deformation. These folds are collapse structures associated with back sliding of the hanging wall, namely the Kohistan paleo island arc. They are explained by a geometrical model that combines coeval vertical and...

Investigations in the western part of Northwest Himalaya have indicated a marked contrast in the stratigraphy, metamorphism and tectonics of the rocks north and south of Batal in the Kaghan Valley and Luat in the Neelum Valley. It is proposed that the Batal-Luat line represents the trace of the Main Central Thrust (MCT).

Regional geology of a large area between Shewa, Malakand and Warsak in the S and Hunza, Yasin and Chitral in the N through the valleys of Dir and Swat has been broadly described. Petrography, with modal compositions of the principal petrological units are presented, with chemistry of some of these rocks. Petrotectonic significance of the principal...