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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As tensions between neighboring countries escalate, land grabbers swiftly moved in to occupy the homes and shops of Afghan nationals who had been repatriated from Karachi's Gulshan-e-Maymar Afghan ...

If “the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton” then what are the battles that we are losing in the traffic of Karachi? I am not sure if this allusion is appropriate. I thought of it ...

Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab's recent demand for greater federal funding for the city's development seems to be in conflict with his own recent decision-making to undermine federal projects for the ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh issued a stern warning to Pakistan regarding its military build-up near the sensitive Sir ...