Jan to Jun 2022 Women and Children News January – June 2022 This compilation covers key news events from January to June 2022, focusing on women and children’s issues in Karachi. It Read more
Forums Booklet Challenges of Growing Urban Populations On 19 May 2022, the Urban Resource Center organized a public forum titled “Managing the Challenges, Issues, and Opportunities of Read more
Jan to Jun 2022, Water Supply Water Supply News January – June 2022 This compilation covers key news events from January to June 2022, focusing on water supply issues in Karachi. It highlights Read more
Current Stories Water crisis FOR the past few weeks, Karachi residents have been experiencing extraordinary disruptions in their water supply. A power breakdown led Read more
Current Stories Reach the masses RECENTLY, I attended the Urban Resource Centre’s Forum on the urban poor and land use management in Karachi. NED University’s Read more
Current Stories Future in jeopardy I HAVE written earlier about the Pakistan Quarters when a proposal for its development was made in 2018 under very Read more
Current Stories Plan to vacate govt quarters in Karachi to build apartments, malls in Karachi KARACHI: The caretaker government of Sindh has decided to build apartments on land of Martin Quarters, Jamshed Quarters, Jahangir Quarters Read more
Current Stories Displacement and despair: Two years on, drain demolition job washes away housing dream Tens of thousands of people in Karachi have been living amidst the rubble of their homes after an ill-thought-out ‘anti-encroachment’ Read more
Current Stories Political culture THERE have been many political movements in Pakistan; some of them have also been between two opposing ideologies, such as Read more
Current Stories Coordination is key I WORKED on a number of large community infrastructure development projects in the 1990s, some of which were disastrous but Read more
