Monday, June 17, 2013
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi They came with the promise to keep peace but took over some precious landmarks – never to leave. With Karachi still blighted by terrorism, at least four buildings, which were once hostels for university students, serve as ...

Friday, June 14, 2013
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi The first stage of the O-level re-examinations is over. Students enrolled with the Cambridge International Examinations took their Islamiyat and Pakistan Studies Paper-I on Thursday. The re-exam was scheduled owing to a ...

Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi The crumbling state of education in Pakistan benefits the United Kingdom immensely. A poor country like ours contributed £4.8 million to the kingdom’s seventh largest export – education – in one session alone. In the ...

Monday, June 10, 2013
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi To an outsider it looks like an artwork of a bored lunatic, but for Nargis Latif this is her “garden in the air”. The scientist who heads the Gul Bahao Trust, a not-for-profit organisation promoting green ideas, ...

Friday, May 31, 2013
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi From an eight bed ward at the Civil Hospital to a state-of-the-art kidney transplant institute, the incredible journey of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplant has been penned down by renowned journalist Zubeida ...

Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi An American think tank has warned the Pakistani authorities that if they fail to confront the growing influence of Taliban in Karachi, the militant network will weaken the city’s overall security and stability. With ...

Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi Seven years ago, Anum Fatima became the first girl in her family to complete her matriculation. Today she is busy packing her bags for Harvard. For the 23-year-old, admission to a school run by The Citizen Foundation ...

Saturday, May 25, 2013
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi In Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, matriculation and intermediate exams are held in March when the temperature is – at the most – moderate. Unlike Sindh where tens of thousands of students take their papers in the ...

Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Sidrah Roghay
Karachi Students at the Government Delhi School for Boys and Girls staged a protest at their playground on Monday. “We will not give away our school. We do not accept denationalisation,” they chanted. This was where Raza Haroon ...

Monday, May 20, 2013
Shamim Bano and Sidrah Roghay
Karachi As Rangers and policemen guarded each polling station and soldiers took positions inside, something was amiss. Amid foolproof security, every person whether reporter or polling staff was checked thoroughly before being ...