Program Manager, Climate Action Center Karachi
Working at the intersection of climate policy, water governance, and the resilience of the Indus delta's communities. MPP (Distinction), University of Essex.
Selected work
Pakistan's leading climate action organisation. As Program Manager, leading resilience programming, policy engagement, and the Karachi climate agenda aligned with the Indus River framing.
Read more →An agritourism initiative on the Indus delta drawing on Sindhi heritage, ecology, and Sufi tradition. Eight experiential zones. Annual Gharo Festival.
Read more →Co-founded education and community development organisation working in Sindh — building local advocacy capacity and connecting cultural knowledge with development frameworks.
Read more →Research & writing
About
"I work between the policy framework and the field reality — because the distance between them is where most of the damage happens."
My connection to Sindh is not academic. I manage land in Khairpur, have spent years in direct conversation with the communities of the Indus delta, and built things there — a cultural enterprise, a foundation, a school. That rootedness is inseparable from how I read a policy document or design a programme.
At the University of Essex I studied the systems that govern these places. My dissertation examined what climate frameworks look like from the receiving end — in the kacho communities who absorb the consequences of every upstream decision.
Full biography →Field Notes
What happens when you put artists, ecologists, and communities together on a delta farm for two days. Some notes on what I noticed.
Read →On the gap between resettlement frameworks and the spatial reality of kacho communities — and why that gap costs lives.
Read →Driving along a colonial barrage at dusk, thinking about what it means to build memory into landscape — and what happens when that landscape is dismantled.
Read →Unwind at Gharo
Private farm experiences, overnight stays, and the annual Gharo Festival — on the Indus delta, 90 minutes from Karachi. A different kind of getaway.
Available for consultancy
Short-term and project-based consultancy for INGOs, UN agencies, bilateral donors, and research institutions — policy analysis, programme design, field research, and Sindh context briefings.