Plight of the displaced

The plight of the people displaced due to the anti-encroachment drive in Karachi is an urgent humanitarian crisis that demands immediate attention and action. The heart-wrenching reality is that despite

SC summons Karachi mayor on plea to rehabilitate displaced families

The Supreme Court on Monday summoned the Karachi mayor and other officials for Dec 21 in a case pertaining to payment of compensation and rehabilitation of the families rendered homeless

Issues with BRT

WHILE meeting an Asian Development Bank delegation earlier this month, Sindh’s caretaker chief minister said that 180 solar-powered buses will be introduced to support the operations of the Bus Rapid

A place called home

The state of housing in Pakistan is anything but satisfactory. A State Bank of Pakistan Report from 2020 says that the country faces a housing shortage of 10.3 million units.

Karachi’s social problems discussed in context of environmental issues

The inauguration ceremony of the second edition of five-day winter school “Environmental Change, Societies at Risk and Social Vulnerabilities in South Asia,” at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) began

Karachi’s precarious land market

The Supreme Court (SC) recently initiated measures to effectively implement the judgments passed with respect to Bahria Town Karachi (BTK). For many who believed this real estate initiative to be ‘a

Decorating Karachi

IN a recent meeting, Sindh’s caretaker chief minister expressed his resolve to ‘beautify’ Karachi. Addressing bureaucrats, heads of civic agencies and architects, he spoke about the poor state of the

Afghan refugees

THE manner in which Afghan refugees are being repatriated from Pakistan is unfortunate. Under the Citizens’ Act, anyone born in Pakistan is a Pakistani citizen. If you apply this law,

‘Nature can’t be blamed for health problems created by man-made environmental hazards’

The topic of the talk organised by the Urban Resource Centre (URC) on Tuesday was ‘The adverse effects on health due to weather changes’ and the speaker, Dr Tipu Sultan