It is this layered, contradictory Lyari that Aditya Dhar’s recent 'Dhurandhar' turns into cinema. The film revolves around ...

EXCLUSIVE: Pakistani national gets highly impressed with Dhurandhar and its detailing of Lyari; also pleased to see the ...

Madiha Sattar is a senior assistant editor at the Karachi-based monthly The Herald. The defining characteristic of the history of Karachi's ethnic-slash-political violence is its complexity. Unlike ...

Highlighting the glorious history of Karachi which was once a peaceful and secure city for foreign tourists in the 1980s and 1990s, Tajikistan Ambassador Sharifzoda Yusuf stressed the need for fully ...

OUTSIDE THE city, few people have heard of the “eight-day operation” mounted in Lyari, a district of Karachi, in April 2012. About 3,000 heavily armed policemen in armoured personnel-carriers laid ...

KARACHI, Sept 30 The vagaries of time, the effects of nature and perhaps most of all human neglect has left many of Sindh's historical and archaeological treasures in incredibly precarious condition.

Aditya Dhar's spy thriller Dhurandhar is set in Pakistan's Lyari of the 2000s. This is how Lyari, a small dock-worker ...

From a berm on the edge of the Korangi industrial area, green agricultural lands stretch north toward the Malir River. On the other side of the slope lies Mehran Town, a shrubby, sandy expanse of once ...

Pakistanis are left to choose whether to reject Dhurandhar, grudgingly admire it, or regret that the story wasn’t theirs to ...

On a muggy evening this July, I was in a car with two colleagues on my way to a wealthy suburb of Karachi, where we were shooting a soap opera. As we drove down a heavily trafficked bridge, our car ...