Tolerance: Hazara Colony voters plan to vote together, celebrate together
KARACHI: Never has Karachi seen political harmony during elections the way it did in Hazara Colony on Saturday during the cantonment elections. The voters were surprised to see the Pakistan...
View ArticleTug-of-war: City goes dry
KARACHI: With the K-Electric (K-E) and Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) engaged in a tug of war over non-payment of dues and disruptions in power supply at the latter’s pumping stations, over...
View ArticleGiving back: Nearly 180 insurance workers clean up Sea View
KARACHI: Nearly 180 employees of IGI Life Insurance woke up an hour earlier on Wednesday to clean a small patch of the beach before heading to their offices. This was the company’s way of celebrating...
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Reviving the lustre of lawn
KARACHI: With one brand hitting the market after another, it’s often a challenge for designer lawn-thusiasts to determine what label and design will get them their money’s worth. Some designers,...
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Journey of a lifetime: The man who dared, the man who drove
KARACHI: Was it courage? Or was it will? Or maybe it was just the subconscious that helped him drive the bus full of victims to Memon Hospital. The facility is located hardly a few minutes away from...
View ArticleIn remembrance: St Patrick’s Cathedral holds special prayers for victims of...
KARACHI: One man’s killing is the killing of the entire humanity, said Father Arthur Charles as he held his hands high. “Guide the misguided to the straight path.” He was addressing a gathering of...
View ArticleDeadly ticks: Congo fever claims first casualty of the year
KARACHI: A 38-year-old man died at Ziauddin Hospital in Clifton on Saturday after being suspected for the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a day earlier. Subject to confirmation, the case will...
View ArticleTortured to death: Political worker killed in police custody
KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Waseem Dehlavi, was tortured to death by police personnel at the Aziz Bhatti police station on Wednesday. The post-mortem report confirmed that...
View ArticleWeather change: Lower Sindh gets respite from heat wave
KARACHI: The heat wave that had hit parts of Sindh for the past few days ended with a dust storm on Wednesday evening. Several flights were diverted and numerous feeders of the electricity utility...
View ArticleEmotions and expressions: Photojournalist offers the beautiful face of...
KARACHI: The faces were painted white. While all three had red lips, each had different eyes — green, blue and yellow. It was like seeing supernatural forms in the dark. The play of colours was...
View ArticleThe art of narration: A journey through Karachi’s past and present
KARACHI: Children of the 80s and even the early 90s grew up listening to the tales of Mullah Nasiruddin and Sheikh Chilli from their elders. For the children of today, somewhat similar tales of subtle...
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Where does the axe fall? Sindh loses focus in budget
KARACHI: Every year, different segments of the society wait for the annual budget with hopes and fears. After the 18th Constitutional Amendment and the 7th NFC Award, the importance of provincial...
View ArticleGoing green: One tree for every one person needed in Karachi
KARACHI: Karachi needs immediate plantation of indigenous trees, artificial forests near the city and more public parks with big trees, suggested environmentalists and forest experts. “Ideally, there...
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Negligence: Zoo director accepts blame for animal deaths
KARACHI: The deaths of eight animals at the Karachi Zoo during the recent heatwave are being blamed on the apathetic attitude of the technical staff and caretakers. The zoo director, Muhammad Faheem...
View ArticleA much-needed makeover: Volunteers give JPMC’s wards a facelift
KARACHI: In the deadly heatwave that gripped the metropolis last week, the doctors at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) were swamped. Barely was one body removed that another heatstroke...
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Heavens open: Rain washes Karachi
KARACHI: In a first, the met office forecasts were accurate to the last minute and the heavens finally opened above Karachi. The port city received an average of 20mm of rainfall on Thursday, the...
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Diving into Mubarak Village: Dilemmas of a dried dam
KARACHI: A community that lives on the shore of Arabia Sea is forced to buy water from the main city as the only source of potable water in the area – a small dam – has dried up. Mubarak Village, with...
View ArticleIn protest: Traders protest against withholding tax
HYDERABAD / KARACHI: Traders across the provincial captial observed a partial shutter-down strike against the imposition of 0.3 percent withholding tax on banking transactions on Saturday. The strike...
View ArticleActivists seek to reunite Indian girl with family
KARACHI: The Salman Khan-starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan may have been a work of fiction, but sometimes life shocks us by imitating fiction. At the Edhi Foundation shelter in Karachi’s Mithadar, far from...
View ArticleIndian envoy meets Geeta in Karachi
KARACHI: Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Dr TCA Raghavan met the hearing- and speech-impaired Indian girl, Geeta, on Tuesday, saying he would do whatever he could to find her family back home....
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