Monday, September 17, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi Despite the ban on swimming at Karachi’s beaches, incidents of drowning continue to rise. Though officials argue that every dangerous zone has been marked by signs warning the public to not enter the water, one ...

Monday, August 06, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi They are at your beck and call, and appear on your doorstep in the darkest of nights - and this is only a part of the favour the radio cab taxi drivers shower on their esteemed customers. Their greatest favour lies in ...

Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi Drug abuse in Karachi is increasing even as efforts to fight addiction and trafficking falter, Farhan Naveed of the Drug Free Pakistan Foundation told The News on Monday, on the eve of International Day against Drug Abuse ...

Thursday, June 21, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi For the thousands of Afghan children living in refugee camps on the outskirts of Karachi, June 20, which is observed around the world as International Refugees Day, was no different from any other day. The hunger, ...

Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi There are 23 Indian fishermen’s children at Youthful Offender Industrial School, Karachi, and about 444 Indian fishermen at District Jail Malir. The juveniles have been convicted for six months and fined Rs1000, but in ...

Monday, May 14, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi Soni Bibi was just seven years old when doctors had to amputate her right leg to save her from cancer. The operation left her completely dependent on her family. Now, at the age of 23, she is single and spends most of her ...

Thursday, May 03, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi Parking vehicles in no-parking zones is a growing phenomenon these days, and it has prompted traffic police to work round the clock to counter this practice. Parking in the wrong lane causes immense inconvenience to ...

Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi Every day, as the sun sets, Ruqia Abbas, a schoolteacher in Lyari’s Bakra Peri area, prays for the security of her students, hoping to see them in school the next day. “I dreamt of being a professor when I was a child, ...

Monday, April 23, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi Even after retirement, the woes of government employees, who work for a pittance all their lives, are far from over, as their pension is nominal, almost always late, many are compelled to travel long distances, and wait in ...

Saturday, April 14, 2012
Shoukat Iqbal Khattak
Karachi Parveen Rao provides education to children in Karachi’s slums to fill the void left by the poorly equipped government-run schools. She helps children from poor urban neighbourhoods escape poverty by utilising teachers, ...