RECENTLY, at a history conference on academic freedom held at SZABIST, a session was devoted to analysing the culture of silence that has come to prevail in our academia. It
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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,
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
