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) beganKarachi’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 ‘aDecorating 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 theAfghan 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