Governing Karachi
Pakistan’s largest city is usually the butt of just about everyone’s anger, wrath or jokes, depending on who you talk to. Mostly, it’s people who don’t like the PPP, which…
Caring for Karachi
A long time ago, I fancied myself as a chronicler of Karachi, pretending to be able to interpret the experience of living in this chaotic and forever-evolving place. In my…
Karachi: an orphan megapolis
The recent rains have once again exposed Karachi’s crumbling infrastructure. It was not a record-breaking downpour. This city has weathered far worse, but the flooding that choked its main arteries…
No empathy, compassion, and support for Karachi
When heavy rains fall on Karachi and ruthlessly destroy infrastructure, severely damage homes, goods, and vehicles, and callously disrupt activities, then voices are raised once again against the insensitive neglect…
Karachi floods
IT rained heavily in 2020. And now it is 2025. The rains have once again devastated Karachi. We have witnessed flooded streets, huge traffic jams, students, working-class employees, motorcyclists and…
Karachi: inequitable NFC impact
BORN in the name of devolution, propagated as people’s rights, and celebrated as a victory for the deprived, the seventh National Finance Commission award has been nothing of the sort.…
Karachi’s traffic nightmare
If “the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton” then what are the battles that we are losing in the traffic of Karachi? I am not…
Fixing Karachi
Karachi Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab is a good man – and he’s trying to do his best to improve the city’s roads and related physical infrastructure, so that the quality…
Polio resurfaces in KP, Karachi, warns NA panel
Resurgence of polio in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Karachi is being driven by poor sanitation and repeated failure to vaccinate large numbers of children due to security and operational challenges,…
From Karachi to Gaza: Pakistani startup ships prosthetics to child war survivors
As soon as eight-year-old Sidra Al Bordeeni returned from the clinic with her prosthetic arm, she jumped on a bicycle in the Jordanian refugee camp where she lives, riding for…
