The Godfather among us
In June 2009, members of MNA Yaqoob Bizenjo’s family received a gift parcel at their residence in Karachi’s up market Defence area from someone in Turbat. As they opened the…
In June 2009, members of MNA Yaqoob Bizenjo’s family received a gift parcel at their residence in Karachi’s up market Defence area from someone in Turbat. As they opened the…
An important deadline has just been missed. Pakistan had committed to itself that from Jan 1 onwards, it would remove the socalled `negative list` under which it trades with India,…
The maddening operation in the Lyari area of Karachi has once again exposed the law-enforcement personnel’s incapacity to deal with an armed and organised challenge without grievously harming the innocent…
A Flurry of bomb attacks targeting Muharram congregations and the army chief`s statement may have pushed Karachi off the agenda but it won`t stay that way for long. In any…
On a brief visit to Karachi, I almost got a crick in my neck on the drive from the airport: remembering all the grisly stories I had heard over the…
Karachi: a city of lights that lives by the sea, is not just about the Quaid’s mausoleum, the, lawn exhibitions or, for that matter, shopping malls, fast food chains and…
Despite the mindless deaths occurring in the country in various forms of violence, the people were shocked out of its numbness at the recent suicide of a 13-year-old student in…
What will have to happen so that the little girl who begs at a traffic signal in Karachi – or Lahore – is able to grow up into a literate,…
The good news is that over the past three years the Karachi Stock Exchange’s KSE-100 Index is up a whopping 180 percent. The other good news is that this healthy…
The recent spurt of violence in Karachi, which killed more than 75 people in just four days, was not the first episode of politically-motivated mayhem in recent years or months.…