Amar Guriro
Multimedia Environmental Journalist,
Daily Times,
Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Amar Guriro is a multimedia environmental journalist, blogger, researcher, photographer, multimedia producer, journalist trainer and a professional fixer based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

He works for Lahore-based English paper, Daily Times in its Karachi office as environmental reporter. He covers environment, climate change, water, politics, health, anthropology, religious minorities, wildlife and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues.

Guriro is IVLP Alum 2011 and also media fellow of WaterAid media fellowship programme since 2009.

He is regional coordinator WashMedia-South Asia, a forum of journalists from across South Asian countries including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka working on water and sanitation.

He is president of National Council of Environmental Journalists (NCEJ), one of its kind national level forum of Pakistani environmental journalists with 104 member journalists from 32 cities across Pakistan.

He tweets @amarguriro
He can be reached at amarguriro@amarguriro.com

 

 

 

 

Co-byline on CNN:  “Amar Guriro contributed to this report”

Pakistan’s stateless Rohingya

 

• Pakistan honour killings continue despite tough new laws
• Hindus flee Muslim extremists after Koran burned in Pakistan

 

• Dalit suffering in Sindh: Daughters of another god
• Feature: Rule of the jogi
• Mother Nature’s guide to weather forecasting
• Catch-22: Karachi’s marine pollution shows catastrophic results
• IMPEDIMENT: Poor sanitation impedes eradication campaign

 

Hindus in Pakistan: Why they choose burial over cremation

 

PHOTOS:  Why Some Muslims In Pakistan Won’t Be Able To Buy A Goat This Year

 

For the love of Hussain

 

Thar’s Lost Tribes

 

• Encroaching sea levels endanger Pakistan’s Indus Delta
• Pamphlet in Pakistan region spurs fears of election violence
• Rains bring new life and tourism to Thar Desert

 

 

 

Blogs:  Exploring why Karachi’s rainwater has nowhere to go

 

• کراچی میں ویران سیاسی اکھاڑے
• صحرائے تھر اور وہاں کے لوگ

• World Oceans Day: Karachi pollution slowly killing Arabian Sea
• Engro pays huge money for marine conservation, but busy polluting turtle nesting sites
• In real life, not all poor children are slumdog millionaires
• Garbage dumping for land reclamation puts environment, marine life at stake
• Teenage migrant labourers lose their childhood in Karachi’s Machar Colony slum

 

• Internally displaced persons still struggling five years after Pakistan floods
• Pakistan: River Indus delta women’s saga

 

• Pakistan’s coal expansion brings misery to villagers in Thar desert
• Karachi’s catastrophic pollution of the sea
• Pakistan: Women on the frontline of climate change
• The Palla stays away
• Still marooned after 2010 floods in Pakistan

 

• Urn catalogue
• End of the River?

 

• Thar: A controversial exit
• Losing a way of life to climate change
• Story of Karachi
• Sindh’s state of denial

• ‘Miles to go before I sleep’..
• Cruel Nature, Cruel Man
• Facts and Fiction of Sindh’s Hindu Exodus
• Conversion or coercion?

 

• Karachi is becoming final destination for climate refugees
• Feudal lord’s fish pond jeopardizes world heritage site of Mohenjo-Daro

 

• Beyond drought
• Deadly heat
• Taking the heat

 

• کوئلے کا پھیلاؤ اور تھر کے باسیوں کے مصائب
• ‘کوئی سیکھ کر جوگی نہیں بن سکتا’

• ڇا رڻ ڪڇ وڃائي ويهنداسين؟

 

بستے کے بجائے کچرے کا بورہ

 

 

Multimedia stories

Pakistan’s coal expansion brings misery to villagers in Thar desert

 

World Oceans Day: Karachi pollution slowly killing Arabian Sea

Pakistan: Women on the frontline of climate change