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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 timeAfter half a century, the government plans to reopen the site as a museum. 
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                                                            Local governance: Indian cities learn together, race aheadAs India hauls its rapidly growing urban centres through reforms, rewards provide incentives. 
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                                                            Water woes: Little to drink, but lots to wasteKarachi 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 listsBoth lists were prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). 
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                                                            Karachi should bypass the flyover to be truly modernI 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 sessionChristian 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’ spacesGreenways 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 themHe performed the first open-heart surgery in Pakistan and couldn’t resist a laddoo. 
 
    











