Representing Pakistan was the ruling Muslim League N’s favourite anti opposition vitriol machine and Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan.
This comes at a time when Pakistan ranks seventh on the list of countries most vulnerable to the consequences of climate change.
The significance of the climate change portfolio can be accessed from the earlier sacking of Senator Mushahidullah.
Such was the importance accorded to the ministry by the then ruling Muslim League, that it was sacrificed to appease Rawalpindi.
DW calls water scarcity a bigger threat to Pakistan than terrorism with experts at the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources predicting that the country is expected to dry up by 2025.
One of the most water intensive countries in the world, there is an increasing trend of blaming neighbouring India for her water woes, with terms such as “water terrorism” hot on the nation’s airwaves.
It also passed the Environmental Protection Act of 2014 and has a robust environmental policy in its manifesto.
Recently notified as the PM’s advisor on Climate Change, Aslam has a wealth of experience in environmental issues.
Regardless, Aslam stuck with his party and was awarded with a cabinet position.
His interests include cricket, South Asian politics and political Islam Published in Daily Times, August 28th 2018.