Being the dumping ground of untreated industrial waste and sewage of the entire Karachi city comprising an estimated over 20 million inhabitants, the shallow marine coastal waters of Karachi are severely polluted. In this backdrop, the 2 days National Workshop on mitigation of Marine Pollution in Karachi Harbour/ Coast was conducted by Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) on the 28th and 29th of April 2014, at the Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi. The participants included representatives of all national maritime stakeholders including Government, Private Sector and NGOs. The workshop received generous support from the Karachi Port Trust and Avari Hotels.Amongst the many recommendations that emerged, the one that promises to be most challenging is the generating of awareness amongst Karachi’s citizenry, young and old, about the colossal negative impact their lifestyles are having upon the marine ecosystem that Karachi is truly blessed to have. It’s been recommended that ‘pro-environment clubs’ be formed in the school and college systems, with parent-teacher-student associations activated on this score to brainstorm and agitate the issues concerned. As citizens we have to take ownership for our neighborhoods and the city that sustains us, by the grace of Allah, and turn the tide on marine pollution.It is with that intention that the Facebook group https://web.facebook.com/groups/533712823395727/?ref=group_header has been formed, and hope that all our members will leverage this forum by posting their efforts and activities in this regard.Ladies & Gentlemen, to Battle Stations!

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Adil Ahmad has been researching and writing on the Pakistani socio-economic scene for the last thirty years. In addition to numerous articles and interviews published in Dawn Magazine, Dawn Review, Dawn Images, Dawn Young World, and Dawn Supplements, he has written biographical books on Ameena Saiyid, Tariq Kirmani, and Saifuddin Zoomkawala as part of the Business and Economic Visionaries of Pakistan Series launched by the 21st Century Business & Economics Club. His first book, however, was ‘The White Knight of Trichmir,’ a work of fiction steeped in reality written under the pseudonym Korangi Jack. His most recent book has been upon Ahmad Allawala, the legendary oilman, commissioned by his Punjabi Saudagar Biradari. Most of Adil Ahmad’s work in the last ten years has been in the corporate communications field, and he has written up and edited the TCS Customer News Magazine CONNECT since 2003 in addition to conceiving, writing up and editing the inaugural Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) Newsletter, as well as LANDMARK, the News Magazine of the 21st Century Business & Economics Club. Adil Ahmad is also writing for and the Editor of the corporate trainers magazine octara.com. Work in progress includes ‘The Casualties of War: BCCI and the Attack of the Neo-Barbs’, a book based on the Swaleh Naqvi memos, and 'Escape from the Taliban', an account of Satish Anand's kidnapping and six months in Taliban captivity. While these two promise to remain in cold storage due to publisher inhibitions, two books that he was commissioned to do have seen the light of day. These are 'Hepatitis Prevalence in Pakistan - Fighting a Losing Battle' (on behalf of The Health Foundation), and the biography of S. M. Muneer, industrialist and entrepreneur par excellence (Leather, Textiles, and Vice Chairman Muslim Commercial Bank) 'Bright Spark from Sholapur' (on behalf of the 21st Century Business & Economics Club).

Research and report on human resource development.