No parking space is designated within state buildings for persons with disabilities KARACHI: Karachi, the capital of Sindh, is home to dozens of buildings of the federal and provincial governments alongside those of various government agencies, yet most of these buildings do
KARACHI: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Sindh Assembly has ordered the immediate dispossession of the women’s hostels occupied by government officials, including DIGs, DC, and education officers. The Women Development Department (WDD) has set up 11 hostels for working women
ISLAMABAD: Karachi and Dhaka will be the only two cities in Asia-Pacific region among the 10 cities of the Global South that will receive eight million climate migrants by 2050 if the world warms by more than 1.5 centigrade above pre-industrial levels,
KARACHI: Some 400,000 flood-affected families have moved into fully completed homes built by the Sindh government while 660,000 houses have been completed at the foundation level, a meeting chaired by Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was told on 21st March. The
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was informed on 21-March-2025 that up to 400,000 homeless victim families of the 2022 severe floods in Sindh had been rehabilitated through the provision of fully built houses constructed under the initiative of the
Cities are living things. If their needs cannot be met through formal planning, they acquire these needs through other means. The process of acquiring what is required through other means reflects the culture and limitations of the agents through which these needs
HYDERABAD: During a solar panels distribution ceremony at the Rawal House in Tandojam on 01-March-2025, senior Sindh minister Sharjeel Inam Memon congratulated Energy Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah for implementing Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s vision of providing solar
Funds raised to reduce the risk and impact of floods, droughts have been spent on rehabilitation works Launched in 2016 with the support of the World Bank, the Sindh Resilience Project had aimed to reduce the risk and impact of floods and
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has signed a $5 million agreement with the European Union through the Sindh Peoples Housing for Flood Affected (SPHF) for poverty alleviation and inclusive rural development. In collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
From poor female employment numbers to a growing housing crisis, Karachi Census 2023 presents an accurate image of issues that need to be addressed in the city. “Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support not illumination.” —