Arabian Sea
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| Area | 3862 |
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| Max. depth | 4,652 m (15,262 ft) |
| Coordinates | 14°N 65°E / 14°N 65°E Coordinates: 14°N 65°E / 14°N 65°E |
| Max. width | 2,400 km (1,500 mi) |
| Islands | Piram Island |
| Did you know | The Arabian Sea surface is about 3,862,000 km2 (1,491,000 sq mi), and has a maximum width of 2,400 km (1,500mi) and maximum depth of 4,652 metres. |
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| ID | 1003299 |
About Arabian Sea
The Arabian Sea is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Peninsula, on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea, on the southwest by the Somali Sea, and on the east by India.
Pentagon acknowledges flying unarmed drones over Gaza
... On Thursday, the US Navy announced that it had fired lethal munitions from an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) - a speed boat - in the international waters of the Arabian Sea...
China's roads win hearts in South Asia - but at a cost
... The West has long been wary of Beijing s moves - concerned these investments would actually help China develop a string of ports through the South China Sea, Arabian Sea and on to Africa to be used by its navy...
Cyclone Biparjoy: More than 150,000 evacuated as India, Pakistan braces for storm
... Biparjoy has been making its way across the Arabian Sea and is expected to first hit India s Gujarat state on Thursday evening local time...
Tamil Nadu: The miraculous return of Indian fishermen lost at sea
... The two men were part of a group of 15 fishermen who set sail in a deep-sea vessel for close to three weeks to fish in the Arabian Sea...
HMS Montrose: Royal Navy seizes drugs worth £15m in Arabian Sea
...The Royal Navy has seized drugs worth more than £15m from a boat in the Arabian Sea...
Maharashtra: Rising sea temperatures hit India fishermen's catch
... He has been going out to fish in this part of the Arabian Sea along the western coast of India with family elders since he was three or four years old...
Cyclone Nisarg makes landfall as it heads to Mumbai
...Mumbai is witnessing its worst storm in decades A whirlwind race in the Arabian Sea has hit along the West coast of India to intensify their approach in the densely populated city of Mumbai...
World Bank warns South Asia economic growth to collapse
... The most powerful economy in the Maldives, a nation of small Islands in the Arabian Sea, where the collapse of high-end tourism, its economic output shrink by more than 13%, warned the world Bank...
Karachi's Clifton Beach swamped by syringes and medical waste
It should have been a relaxing Morning Walk along one of Pakistan's most beloved beaches.
Instead, it became a race against Time to prevent anyone being seriously hurt by The Used syringes, vials of blood and other medical waste carpeting the shoreline.
"My first response was that I had to protect the People who go down to The Beach ," Shaniera Akram told the BBC. "It was very shocking. "
Clifton Beach, in the southern city of Karachi , is a favourite with local residents. But following heavy rains, four of five kilometres of its usually Golden Sands had become covered in rubbish, with the hazardous medical waste hidden In Between plastic bags.
The Beach , Mrs Akram - who is married to Pakistani cricket legend Wasim Akram - quickly realised, was unsafe.
"I have walked on The Beach Every Day for The Last four years and I have never been scared until today," she tweeted as she shared pictures taken along The Shore on Tuesday morning.
Within the space of 10 Minutes , she added, she had counted "More Than four dozen" syringes on The Sand : "Clifton Beach, at this moment, is Extremely Dangerous and needs to be shut down. "
"It was like a hospital had washed up on our beach," the Australian-born mother-of-three told the BBC. "This is the First Time in my Time here that I have heard of something like this. "
Indeed, by all accounts, the medical waste's appearance is highly unusual. But Karachi - a city of More Than 14 million People - has been struggling with accumulating waste for some Time .
The pictures, shared on Social Media , sparked outrageAccording to Dawn newspaper, about a third of the 13,000 tonnes of.
Another report, This Time by news channel Al Jazeera , while also showing how open sewers were flowing underneath a carpet of rubbish into the Arabian Sea - the same sea which laps Clifton Beach.
Jamil Ahmed Khan , Parliamentary Secretary for maritime affairs, went as far as to admit to Al Jazeera that the provincial government had "failed" to deal with the issue over The Past decade.
But the medical waste is particularly shocking to Mohammad Moazzam Khan, who works as a technical adviser for The World Wildlife Fund.
"This has never happened before," Mr Khan said. "More Than 20 years ago, when awareness about environment was not widespread, it wasn't unusual to find hospital waste dumped on general waste dumping spots.
"But then there were increasing controls, and hospital waste dumping got more organised. "
Exactly where the medical waste strewn along Clifton Beach originated is unclear. Officials told the BBC that they did not know its origin. But Mr Khan believes he knows how it ended Up There .
Clifton Beach is popular with locals and tourists"It looks like the waste found on The Beach basically came from such a dump which got washed into The Sea due to the extraordinarily heavy rains that have hit Karachi during The Last couple of weeks," he told the BBC.
At least for now, though, the medical waste on Clifton Beach is being properly dealt with. Officials in The City cordoned off the affected areas within hours of Mrs Akram's call for help on Twitter.
But she is hoping the shocking images - and the shocked response they elicited from her fellow Karachi residents - Will prompt The Authorities to act.
"People here have been in a state of fight or flight for many years, and we have missed out on this People in The West take for granted - Things like Waste Management ," She Said .
"But we are Getting There , one problem at a Time . I Am glad that I got the response that I did. I hope this becomes something positive. It's all just coming Together - People are trying. "
Additional reporting by the BBC's M Ilyas Khan
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Source of news: bbc.com
