Current Stories Civil society asks federal, Sindh govts to stop forced evictions Members of the Joint Action Committee have asked the federal and provincial governments to stop forced evictions and halt their Read more
Current Stories ‘They fired at everyone’: peril of Pakistani villagers protesting giant luxury estate Activists were shot and beaten at demonstration to stop property giant Bahria Town building on indigenous land they say was Read more
Current Stories Evict & extinguish The writer teaches at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on Read more
Current Stories ‘Modern form of colonisation’: APC terms Bahria Town Karachi illegal, demands the land be returned to original position An All Parties Conference against Bahria Town Karachi, Gadap Town, Karachi, May 23. — Photo by author An All Parties Read more
Current Stories SHC halts anti-encroachment drive along Orangi, Gujjar nullahs The Sindh High Court instructed Friday the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation to halt the anti-encroachment drive along the Orangi and Gujjar Read more
Current Stories Ruthless evictions FOR a state to deprive residents of their homes without providing for alternative housing for them is a dereliction of Read more
Current Stories Blurred boundaries The writer is a Karachi-based academic and researcher. INSTEAD of a ‘politics of control’, the residents of Karachi desire a Read more
Current Stories ‘Naya Pakistan’ The writer is an architect, urban planner, and social activist. ALL over the world the pandemic has hit the poor Read more
Current Stories Did the World Bank fund Karachi’s nullah evictions? Buildings along a nullah in Liaquatabad being demolished to widen the waterway ahead of the monsoons in Karachi, March 18, Read more
Current Stories Human chain formed to protest against ‘illegal’ evictions along nullahs in Karachi “We have spent our childhood and youth in these houses,” said Abid Asghar, a leader of the Gujjar Nala affectees. Read more
