Current Stories Legacy of hope AKHTAR Hameed Khan, the renowned Pakistani social scientist, and father of the world-famous Comilla Cooperatives, passed away on Oct 9, Read more
Current Stories Politics of Karachi’s municipal taxes F or the past few weeks, the politics of municipal tax collection has taken centre stage in Karachi. Officials of Read more
Current Stories Local elections in the doldrums THE Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has dismissed the Sindh government’s latest request to delay local government elections in Karachi Read more
Current Stories ‘Establishment of settlements at unsuitable places aggravated flood disaster’ Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday highlighted the cause of the recent flood disaster in the country, especially Sindh that Read more
Current Stories Effective coordination during a disaster matters. Here is why Large swathes of Pakistan have been affected – including these people in Jafarabad in Balochistan — Rueters As per the Read more
Current Stories Fragile environment TORRENTIAL rains and the resultant floods have wreaked havoc across the country. People and livestock have perished; millions have been Read more
Current Stories Pakistan’s history of disasters and the lessons we fail to learn It is now common wisdom that all hazards are natural and all disasters a result of unjust anthropogenic interactions with Read more
Current Stories An endless deterioration of infrastructure T he last memory of a smooth driving experience on Karachi’s roads may be about quite some time ago. While Read more
Current Stories Call for evolving system to handle 1,100 tonnes of medical waste There is no separate handling along modern lines of around 1,100 tonnes of garbage generated by hospitals in Karachi on Read more
Current Stories ‘Karachi’s population was deliberately undercounted to keep status quo’ KARACHI: Distinguished architect and town planner Arif Hasan on Tuesday discussed several unique aspects of Karachi and said that there Read more