Oonib Azam is a Karachi-based journalist covering civic, environment, minorities and transport issues
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It has been observed in recent years that incumbent mayors of Karachi are rarely visible in public discourses and panel discussions due to the fear...
At a session of the Karachi Literature Festival on Saturday evening, journalist Shaheen Salahuddin recalled former prime minister Shahid Khaqan...
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan reclaimed its lost ground of District Central that was snatched from it by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in...
The results for Karachi’s District Keamari’s two National Assembly seats have aligned exactly with predictions. This combo shows Pakistan...
There was a long crater on a service road outside the HS Schooling System in District Central’s NA-247 constituency, along with numerous large and...
Karachi's District Central is poised to be a fiercely contested battleground in today's elections. Commuters move past the election banners...
District Keamari’s NA-242 presents an intriguing contest between the Pakistan Peoples Party’s candidate, Qadir Khan Mandokhail, and the...
The Defence View locality of Karachi is owned neither by the Defence Housing Authority nor the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation when it...
Despite the existence of a significant number of Khawaja Siras in Sindh, only around 3,000 of them are registered to vote, leading to a lack of...
Sexual abuse at home has lifelong implications and it creates a hopeless situation for victims, said psychologist Dr Asha Bedar.She was speaking in...
This still taken from a video released on July 5, 2023, shows an under-construction bridge under the Malir Expressway project. —...
Major reasons for the decrease are illegal allotments of land in mangrove areas and cutting of mangroves for land reclamation
The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has finally made the details of its 2023-24 budget of Rs38.198 billion, which was passed on June 14, available...
British High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott has said that the UK-Pakistan trade has nearly tripled now to 4.4 billion pounds, and avenues...
Opposition members of the KMC City Council have no access to the budget documents, which are supposed to be in public domain
Karachi Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab inaugurated the Gulistan-e-Jauhar underpass on Monday at a cost of Rs1 billion in violation of key...
The Sindh government has reappropriated Rs200 million from the project of the rehabilitation of the Gujjar Nullah and Orangi Nullah affectees to a...
KARACHI: The United Nations Development Programme Pakistan has temporarily suspended its HIV effective prevention and treatment programme in Sindh,...
Razia Bibi, 50, a resident of the Gujjar Nullah area, was already hardly able to make ends meet when her home was demolished for the project to...
The Pakistan Peoples Party got its first elected mayor of Karachi, Murtaza Wahab, through an election last month. Before Wahab, the Muttahida Qaumi...
In what looks like a discriminatory policy, the Defence Housing Authority has banned non-DHA residents from entering the Nisar Shaheed Park located...
Although Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah recently issued directives to get one of the tracks of the Malir Expressway functional by December, The...
With the promise to work with true faith and allegiance to Pakistan and strengthen its solidarity and prosperity through good governance, the first...
Salman Abdullah becomes deputy mayor, both bag 173 votes each
The Sindh government has increased its local government department’s budget from Rs62 billion to Rs62.5 billion for the incoming financial year...
KARACHI: Transgender rights activist and Gender Interactive Alliance member Shehzadi Rai on Wednesday submitted her nomination papers for the...
Transgender rights activist and Gender Interactive Alliance member Shehzadi Rai on Wednesday submitted her nomination papers for the Karachi...
The Federal Shariat Court’s decision against the Transgender Persons Act, 2018, is not only against the transgender community but also against...
After multiple extensions in the census date, the population count of Karachi has finally crossed the figure of 2017 census and reached 17.819...
The Malir Expressway project seems financially unviable as the Asian Development Bank has backed out from financing it and struck down it from its...
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has suggested an enumeration re-check in around 30,000 buildings of more than four storeys in Karachi, and sent...
While the ongoing census is supposed to officially culminate today, April 4, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistic has announced that the population...
While the country’s first digital population count is in its final stages, complaints of use of paper forms by enumerators have been surfacing in...
Karachi Commissioner Muhammad Iqbal Memon announced formulation of a policy for the regularisation of ration distribution campaigns to avoid...
The magic number of Karachi’s total population has once again generated controversy as urban planners are estimating it to be around 17.5...
The magic number of Karachi’s total population is yet to surface. As of Sunday, March 26, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics’ command & control...
Karachi has a total of 365 census charges, 1,290 census circles and 15,984 census blocks; each block comprises 200 to 250 houses, each circle has...
Pakistan’s population and housing censuses have always been marred with controversies and blame games by political parties consistently claiming...
Sepa turns a blind eye to lack of both initial environment examination and environment impact assessment report that are mandatory for such mega...
"Riyasat jawab do, bhook ka hisab do" was central theme for this year's Aurat March
The National Academy of Performing Arts is hosting a play titled ‘An Inspector Calls’ from March 10 to March 19. The play is relevant to...
The Karachi chapter of the Aurat March on Wednesday demanded cutting public expenditure, civilian and military, and directing that amount to the...
The 14th edition of the three-day Karachi Literature Festival, which concluded on Sunday, lacked indigenous voices in most of its panel discussions,...
The local and international sectors responsible for the ‘real-estate-isation’ of land cannot be exempted from disasters induced by climate...
“Boys can cry, and girls can be more than beautiful,” Muzaffar Bukhari, founder of the Veritas Learning Circle , said at the Karachi Wellness...
