ON THE INDUS RIVER, Pakistan – Pakistanis call the Indus the Father of the Rivers, the Blue Water, the Lion River. Ancient civilizations thrived around it. Shrines to Sufi and Hindu saints dot its ...

An unlikely citizen scientist is helping to save an endangered dolphin that lives in Pakistan’s Indus River. He’s a fisherman who cannot read or write. Using his battered mobile, Sikander Ali calls a ...

The Indus River, the lifeblood of Pakistan, has been a source of sustenance, livelihood, and prosperity for millions of people living in the Indus Basin. Stretching over 3,180 kilometers from the ...

Indus River dolphins are distinguished by their elongated noses and small, nearly vestigial eyes. Once thriving in the lower parts of the Indus and its tributaries, their numbers have dwindled due to ...

The Indus River in Pakistan is being extensively disturbed by unregulated mining of the river’s bed (‘placer mining’) for gold. Numerous operations employing an estimated 1,200 heavy machines dig ...

Pakistan, working with WWF-Pakistan and federal and provincial departments, is developing a five-year national strategy to conserve the endangered Indus river dolphin, officials said. The plan, still ...

On April 22, 2025, armed militants emerged from the woods into a scenic meadow outside the mountain town of Pahalgam in India and opened fire on unsuspecting tourists, killing at least 26 people and ...

TO GO WITH Pakistan-environment-conservation-animal,FEATURE BY ASHRAF KHAN In this photograph taken on September 13, 2014, a blind dolphin swims along the Indus river in the southern Pakistani city of ...