Saturday, March 16, 2013
Qadeer Tanoli
Karachi Judging by its expenditures, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is taking the next general elections seriously. Over the past four months, the ruling party has spent millions of rupees in rural Sindh constituencies on ...

Saturday, March 09, 2013
Qadeer Tanoli
Karachi For a city whose population has boomed beyond the 20 million mark, there are only 22 fire tenders that are in a working condition. The 40 other fire engines at the Karachi fire department’s disposal need repairs but ...

Thursday, February 28, 2013
Qadeer Tanoli
Karachi Several months have passed since the fire erupted at the garment factory in Baldia Town, but dozens of families are still waiting for the victims’ bodies as well as for the compensation amounting to Rs900,000 for each ...

Monday, February 25, 2013
Ammar Shahbazi and Qadeer Tanoli
Karachi Five months after the Baldia factory blaze, the bodies of 17 unidentified victims were buried at the KMC graveyard near the Hub River Road on Sunday. According to court orders, government officials had allotted a serial ...

Saturday, February 09, 2013
Qadeer Tanoli
Karachi Traders staged a unique protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Friday in which a symbolic Fateha Khwani and “funeral” were offered over the “death” of peace and economy due to ever-worsening law and ...

Friday, February 08, 2013
Qadeer Tanoli
Karachi Leaders of trade unions have demanded the government to compensate all the families of the victims of the Baldia factory fire, including those waiting for the DNA reports through the commission set up by the Sindh High ...

Thursday, January 31, 2013
Qadeer Tanoli
Karachi Representatives of civil society organisations have called upon the governments of the South Asian states to allocate more resources and make their disaster management systems people-friendly and responsive to the ...

Wednesday, January 30, 2013
By Qadeer Tanoli
Experts say impoverished populations in South Asian countries more vulnerable to natural calamities than those in other parts of the world Experts from regional countries have said the impoverished populations in South Asian ...

Monday, January 28, 2013
Qadeer Tanoli
Karachi The Karachi Urban Transport Corporation (KUTC) has planned a compact strategy for the rehabilitation of affectees of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR). Around Rs4 billion will be spent on the rehabilitation of 4,653 ...

Sunday, January 27, 2013
Qadeer Tanoli
Karachi Trade unionists and representatives of workers believe that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led government cannot bring any positive change in the status of the rights of workers because the economic policy has not been ...