The Malir Expressway will destroy much-needed green space and worsen the risk of floods and extreme heat in Pakistan’s largest city. As the impacts of climate change are being increasingly
The people, neighbourhoods and public spaces of Karachi have undergone a radical transformation over the past seven decades. In a traditionally segregated society, a change in the status of women
(L-R) Seema Liaquat, Arif Hasan, Zoha Alvi, Nuzhat Shirin and Zofeen T. Ebrahim during the discussion at the URC office. — Photo by author KARACHI: The importance, rather dire need,
The Sindh government has reappropriated Rs200 million from the project of the rehabilitation of the Gujjar Nullah and Orangi Nullah affectees to a road construction project in Sukkur namely, ‘Construction/Rehabilitation
On 6 July 2023, in its Flood Management Conference, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) gave a wake-up call to the key stakeholders regarding the risk of urban flooding in
K arachi has yet to receive the full blast of monsoon rains for this year. While the city management is making tall claims about the preparedness, the past experience does
After the heavy floods in 2020, the decision to remove illegal settlements along one of Karachi’s streams, Orangi Nala, to make way for water was a double blow to the
KARACHI has witnessed mass economic discrimination far too often, making the PPP’s ‘roti, kapra, makaan’ slogan seem rather aspirational. The misery of 9,632 families displaced in a flattening action in
