Current Stories Will Karachi’s pink bus finally break the glass ceiling or crash into it yet again? These women from Quetta had sat on a women-only bus for the first time and were quite enjoying the experience. Read more
Current Stories Lessons from Turkiye SO far, over 40,000 people are reported to have died in the massive earthquake of Feb 6 that caused huge Read more
Current Stories Post-poll Karachi AFTER a long wait, local government elections were finally held last month in Karachi and other locations in Sindh. The Read more
Current Stories HOW DO KARACHI’S POOR SEE THEMSELVES? This article is a result of a study on how the poor view their poverty — unlike most studies where, Read more
Current Stories Development & culture THE dictionary meaning of culture is “the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively”. Keeping this definition Read more
Current Stories The other side of ‘police brutality’ THE police action in Karachi’s Mujahid Colony recently elicited a range of responses and reactions, with some calling it a Read more
Current Stories World Bank adaptation funds slept through Pakistan’s record flooding A $100 million project was meant to protect Karachi slumdwellers from flooding, but instead made many homeless before work stalled Read more
Current Stories Rehabilitation IN 2018, on the basis of a judgement passed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, according to some estimates, 7,000 Read more
Current Stories Without shelter EVICTIONS in Karachi are the new norm. Whether it is the widening of a carriageway, the cleaning of a nullah Read more
Current Stories Planning for Karachi’s future H aving braved mis-governance for decades, some residents of Karachi started pinning hopes on routine developments. For instance, many in Read more