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Topic: Karachi

Slum township outside Karachi sees influx of people fleeing from Taliban rule in Afghanistan

About two lakh Afghans live in the slum township, while the entire city of Karachi is home to about five lakh Afghan refugees.

Why Pakistan’s opposition is calling this Karachi housing project ‘modern form of colonialism’

Our prolific feature about Pakistan’s fascinating politics, economy, society, culture, cricket, fashion and more — stories beyond the routine headlines.

Karachi Police gets on rollerblades to stop crime, preacher fashions idea to fund madrasas

Our prolific feature about Pakistan’s fascinating politics, economy, society, culture, cricket, fashion and more — stories beyond the routine headlines.

In Pakistan’s Punjab province, CM looks to promote qawwali programmes through cable TV

CM Usman Buzdar has asked officials to organise qawwali programmes on local cable in a move that is likely to have been inspired by Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Sena leader asks Karachi Sweets owner to change shop name, party says not ‘official stance’

Karachi Sweets in Mumbai for 60 yrs, has nothing to do with Pakistan, Sanjay Raut says after video shows Shiv Sena leader Nitin Nandgaokar asking shop owner to change its name.

5 killed, 7 injured in explosion inside building in Pakistan’s Karachi

Officials say there was no trace of IED on the scene and initial investigations suggest the explosion could have been caused due to a gas leak.

Pilots of crashed PIA Airbus could have become rusty due to lockdown, safety chief says

Bloomberg- Europe’s top aviation-safety official said that pilot rustiness following global groundings at the height of the coronavirus crisis may have been a factor...

15 die as monsoon lashes Karachi, Pakistan declares holiday to tackle ‘disaster-like’ crisis

Pakistan hasn’t experienced monsoon floods this bad since 2010, which have left thousands homeless. The weather office recorded a total of 345 mm of rain in August so far.

Former Pakistani cricketer Ramiz Raja shares fake image, then gets trolled for foul language

Ramiz Raza shared an image on Twitter which he claimed was a submerged area in Karachi. When social media users called the image fake, he used foul language in response.

MEA slams Pakistan for linking Karachi terror attack to India, calls remarks ‘absurd’

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had alleged that clues of the strike at the Pakistan Stock Exchange were leading towards sleeper cells activated by India.

On Camera

Epstein files and what they mean for the American anger against elites

Of all academic institutions, it is at Harvard, the richest and perhaps the most powerful academic institution in the world, that Epstein’s ties appear to have flourished most.

To meet fund crunch, Karnataka to auction plots in Bengaluru, raise Rs 4,000 crore

Siddaramaiah govt’s five schemes strain finances as GST changes hit revenues; debt to jump nearly Rs 80,000 crore. State also plans to auction liquor licences & extend bar timings.

Not just BSF, MHA working on rules to reserve 50% of all CAPF constable posts for Agniveers

The MHA is deliberating on new recruitment rules for all CAPFs, including the CRPF, ITBP, and SSB. It wants to incorporate a 50% quota for Agniveers across the CAPFs.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.