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There are credible reports that Pakistanis in Dubai and other countries in the region are moving their wealth to Pakistan to buy property in...

DEATH TRAPS Published in Dawn on January 23, 2026 Embed from Getty Images THE recent fire at Gul Plaza proves that most building...

The recent fire in Karachi's Gul Plaza should not have surprised anyone. It is reported that the city had 2,400 fires in 2025. Most of t...

Published in Dawn on January 16, 2026 WRONG ESTIMATE: This is with reference to the report ‘Mayor inaugurates Rs900m solar-powered street li...

When I visited Taiwan in 1991, my hosts were amazed that I had gone to Singapore first. "What's there is Singapore?" one of th...

Embed from Getty Images Lo and behold, we saw another side of Trump when he met Mamdani. He even asked Mamdani to say yes when the New York...

Even when I was 7 or 8, Karachi  would be flooded every time it rained heavily (which was after every three or four years). I remember Mr. J...

Published in DAWN on July 24, 2025 BUILDING COLLAPSE: This is with reference to the editorial ‘Building collapse’ (July 5). I do not underst...

  It was in 1969 or early 1970 that a contractor took me to see what is called a "peer" (pronounced like "peel"). I was ...

 Published in DAWN on March 22, 2006 RESIDENTS of multi-storeyed buildings in Karachi have been asked to prove that their buildings are eart...

NOT UNUSUAL Published in DAWN on March 23, 2025 Embed from Getty Images This is with reference to the report “PIA aircraft’s missing wh...

Until recently, Hindus led comfortable lives in Karachi and the rest of Sindh, it was only the Christians and Ahmedis who left the country d...

Soluble roads Published in The News on September 21, 2024 The Sindh government has reportedly decided to spend Rs1.5 billion to repair r...

I saw a video clip today which showed an attractive Pakistani woman who became wealthy by begging. She's earned enough to buy two apartm...

Irfan Memon, a school principal in Malir (a suburb of Karachi), is accused of raping more than twenty five women whom he had promised to emp...

A few months after Ayub Khan seized power in 1958, Karachi was declared the cleanest city in the world. But only a year or so after Bhutto c...

Anyone could have foreseen that this would happen. A Chinese dentist and his wife were seriously injured and their assistant (also Chinese) ...

Weather is uniform in Pakistan (except Karachi, which has unpredictable weather). This is why, when usually the rest of the country is suffe...

People are puzzled about the Chief Justice's urgency to demolish Nesla Towers immediately. There are some who say the judge wants to do ...

A major upset occurred yesterday when the PPP candidate Qadir Mandokhel narrowly defeated PMLN's Miftah Ismail (whom I personally like a...