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Growing pains: Like Nairobi, will Karachi become its own master?
Kenya has just returned power to its urban hubs by creating counties but Pakistan still struggles.
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Sindhi Hindu family’s heritage home in Hyderabad rescued from time
After half a century, the government plans to reopen the site as a museum.
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Local governance: Indian cities learn together, race ahead
As India hauls its rapidly growing urban centres through reforms, rewards provide incentives.
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Water woes: Little to drink, but lots to waste
Karachi loses 35% of its water in leaky pipes; Singapore loses less than 5%.
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Planned urbanisation: Can rowdy cities like Karachi be tamed?
UN-Habitat chief believes there is a science to urbanisation.
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Karachi stays bottom of the barrel on 2 global lists
Both lists were prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
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Karachi should bypass the flyover to be truly modern
I was convinced that ‘chaos’ in the dead space underneath the flyover should be cleaned up, beautified.
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Amid pedicures, cleansing for the soul in salon’s DIY prayer session
Christian women who miss Sunday Mass make up for it at work.
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Made-in-China flyover fix could work wonders for Karachi’s ‘dead’ spaces
Greenways with streams, landscaping and greenery improved life for Guangzhou’s residents.
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Humble cardiac surgeon Dr AG Jatoi, the maker of Mideast Hospital, won hearts just as he mended them
He performed the first open-heart surgery in Pakistan and couldn’t resist a laddoo.