KARACHI: The Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) will soon launch a campaign to redress complaints about the non-implementation of minimum wages. Speaking at a provincial consultation session on the implementation
In the midst of this spiraling chaos fueled by frustration, political turmoil and anarchy, we can only yearn for the restoration of reason and sanity A view of the burnt
The Urban Resource Centre (URC), a nonprofit organization focused on addressing the issues of Karachi, organized a session on Pakistan’s 7th Population and Housing Census and its results on Wednesday.
KARACHI: The very fact that with each extension in the census deadline Karachi’s population registered an increase shows that the process was faulty and that is because of the reality
A country with a young population but devoid of social sector investment, health and education could turn into a demographic disaster. Economist Dr Asim Bashir, who is also a member
Dr NA Baloch Institute of Heritage Research affiliated with the Sindh government’s antiquities department held its 8th Annual International Conference on Saturday. Speaking at the conference titled ‘Endangered Heritage of
THERE is much talk about an under-preparation master plan for Karachi. There have been other plans before which have been reduced to a number of uncoordinated projects because they have
There is urgent need for amendment in Land Acquisition Act 1894 to include provisions for resettlement and rehabilitation In Karachi, a bustling metropolis in South Asia, it’s an all-too-familiar sight:
THE media is full of real estate ads offering plots of land, condominiums, apartments, one-unit houses, holiday homes, farmhouses, commercial spaces, etc, in many locations in the country. The use
WHEN I began working in low-income settlements in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was no such thing as NGOs and civil society. Activists in low-income settlements usually formed
