No matter how industriously master plans of cities are made, because of the prevalent bureaucratic work culture the operationalization of these will always remain problematic. The purpose of this article
This report provides a detailed list of families displaced due to the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project, as compiled by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in 2010. It outlines
THE federal cabinet has approved the 2017 census results. Some political parties, including those with greater stakes in Karachi, have announced their opposition to this decision. The city’s population figures
One day architect, provocateur, town planner Arif Hasan went to see Shafiqur Rahman Paracha, the bureaucrat who was in charge of resettling people uprooted by the building of the Lyari