Karachi situation: Some serious moves
Lasting peace in Karachi is now written on the wall with Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif himself making it a point to preside over the federal cabinet meeting in the…
Karachi’s roads are killing us
On a Monday evening in Ramazan, just moments before iftar, Abdul Qayyum, 25, was taking his pregnant wife, Zainab, for a routine check-up. As they waited at the junction of…
Karachi diary
FOR a city this dynamic — it is the hub of commercial and business activity in the country — and for a city this size, Karachi’s infrastructure is poor. This…
Decorating Karachi
IN a recent meeting, Sindh’s caretaker chief minister expressed his resolve to ‘beautify’ Karachi. Addressing bureaucrats, heads of civic agencies and architects, he spoke about the poor state of the…
Ranking Karachi
THE Economist Intelligence Unit’s rating of Karachi as one of the world’s least livable cities is not surprising. Five categories were reviewed to arrive at this conclusion: stability, healthcare, education,…
Fixing Karachi
ONCE again, the hapless residents of Karachi have been given a promise. On Feb 3, the federal railways minister agreed to hand over the Karachi Urban Transport Corporation, a federal…
New Karachi
LAST week, eminent urban planner and researcher Arif Hasan, along with his associates Dhuha Alvi and Amal Hashim, published an analysis of the most recent census numbers as they pertain…
Moving the capital back to Karachi
To save Jinnah’s Pakistan, voices are being raised to move the capital back to his city from where the journey had started. Shabbar Zaidi, the taxation wizard, recently forwarded this…
A win-win situation
I wonder how many people remember the invasion of locust hordes in Karachi in the sixties. I witnessed many of their invasions. It was mostly in school that we would…
Bikers of Karachi
As a student in the USA, I was fascinated with the capers of Evel Knievel, the American motorcycle stunt performer who made more than 300 jumps in his bike. Pakistan…
