Arshad Yousafzai is based in Karachi and mainly covers political parties, labour, education policy, science and research, minorities, and human rights for The News International.
By denying ethnic diversity, the enforced hegemony for nation-building in East Pakistan did not work. Ironically, the same strategy continues...
Later, talking to media persons, Dr. Maqbool said that they were hopeful of getting justice from the Election Commission
Various political parties, including the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz , Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan , Grand Democratic Alliance , Awami...
MQM-P will approach courts for transparent delimitations before the elections: Siddiqui
To secure his victory in the coming elections, Sindh Awami National Party President Shahi Syed has put a condition before joining the anti-Pakistan...
GDA leader Safdar Abbasi along with MQM leader Farooq Sattar and JUI-F leader Rashid Soomro is addressing press conference at Functional House in...
Grand Democratic Alliance Coordinator Pir Sadruddin Shah Rashidi. — APP/File Before finalising their electoral alliance against the Pakistan...
Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab and Deputy Mayor Salman Murad also emerged successful in their respective constituencies
A female voter exercising her right to vote at a polling station in the metropolis during by-elections for direct LG seats on November 5, 2023. —...
Detained Afghan refugees arrive at a police station in Karachi on November 2, 2023, following a police operation against illegal Afghan immigrants....
After the completion of scrutiny of nomination papers for the coming local bodies by-polls to fill 886 vacant seats in 22 districts of Sindh, as...
The Grand Democratic Alliance wrote a letter to the Sindh caretaker chief minister on Monday asking him to replace the bureaucracy, remove party...
KARACHI: It was only Karachi in the province of Sindh that gave a significant number of national and provincial assembly seats to the Pakistan...
The leaders of GDA, MQM-P and JUI-F maintained that the CM House had turned into the ‘Peoples Secretariat’
The recent increase announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan in the number of the National and Sindh assembly constituencies of Karachi at...
Geo News reported MQM counsel Irfan Qadir as saying advocate on record has been informed about party’s decision to withdraw petition
The by-elections on the vacant local government seats across Sindh will be held on November 5. The schedule for the by-elections in Sindh was...
Legend has it that Mughal Emperor Jehangir had installed a chain with a bell outside his palace so that anyone with a legitimate grievance could...
Political parties from diverse ideologies have condemned the latest surge in petrol prices, calling for an immediate reduction in inflation that has...
Owing to the low conviction rate and flaws in prosecution, sexual and gender-based violence in Pakistan continues to pose a grave threat to the...
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Friday unveiled its fact-finding report titled ‘Northern Sindh: In Search of Solutions’ highlighting...
Police on Monday arrested the principal of an unregistered private school in Gulshan-e-Hadeed over allegedly pressuring over 25 teachers and staff...
Suspect used to blackmail victims using CCTV footage; four-member committee formed to probe the incident
The three-month party membership campaign that was launched by the Awami National Party on July 1 has failed to attract a significant crowd in...
The union of anti-Pakistan Peoples Party political forces in Sindh, especially Sindhi nationalist groups as well as parties that are considered to...
Political forces have been weakened by influential quarters since the first day, while space for progressive politics and real democracy has been...
Members of the Christian community protesting outside the Karachi Press Club, on August 18, 2023. — ReporterMembers of the Christian community of...
Over 210,000 entries were made for Cambridge IGCSE and O-Level in June 2023 series
KARACHI: Justice Maqbool Baqar, who has been nominated as the caretaker chief minister of the Sindh, enjoys a reputation of an excellent jurist and...
Students have voiced their concerns, calling the grading unjust and demanding that the cancelled papers should be held again
A day after the dissolution of the Sindh Assembly, political temperature rose in the province on Saturday as the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan ...
Over 118,000 entries were made for AS and A-Levels in June 2023 series in Pakistan
As the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and Grand Democratic Alliance continue talks for jointly suggesting names for the caretaker Sindh chief...
Decision was taken during a meeting where Transgender Education Policy draft was discussed with key stakeholders
The Grand Democratic Alliance on Tuesday announced its support for the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s candidate for the post of the leader...
Many a book have been authored to document the political struggle of leftist parties in the country, which often had to work covertly during the...
The Grand Democratic Alliance has authorised its two-member committee comprising its general secretary Dr Safdar Abbasi and information secretary...
Although many former Karachi leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf such as Ali Zaidi, Mahmood Baqi Moulvi and Imran Ismail have joined the newly...
The Sindh chapter of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has lost many members since the May 9 violent incidents, and those who remain are afraid to...
The 25 Town Municipal Corporations of Karachi will be ruled by the chairmen belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party , Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistan...
Salman Abdullah becomes deputy mayor, both bag 173 votes each
Public representatives must exercise caution, respect in choice of words, letter to NA speaker states
In case Barrister Murtaza Wahab Wahab is elected as the Karachi mayor today, he will be the first elected chief of the Karachi Metropolitan...
An intense political theatre will be witnessed at the Arts Council of Pakistan today where the Election Commission of Pakistan will be holding the...
The Jamaat-e-Islami’s candidate for the Karachi mayor, Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, has suffered a setback as two union committee chairmen of the...
Meeting of over 30 elected PTI's UC chairmen decide not to vote for JI
The Sindh government has earmarked Rs312.245 billion for the education sector for the financial year 2023-24, decreasing it by Rs14.555 billion, as...
In a significant development in the Sindh chapter of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , the leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil...
If all goes by the book, the Jamaat-e-Islami should clinch the coveted post of the Karachi mayor because the number of seats of the JI and the...
Former Governor Imran Ismail and former minister Ali Zaidi part ways from PTI
