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Lucrative business: ‘Cantonment boards have no laws to regulate charged parking sites’
The six cantonment boards in the city are all running charged parking business illegally.
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A continuing menace: Demolished illegal hydrants become functional again
The water mafia behind the city’s water crisis includes KWSB officials and politicians.
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Advertising frenzy: Despite ‘tied hands’, officials vow to resist cutting trees
Commissioner writes to environment protection agency to devise plan in a week
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Money grows on trees: City managers, provincial govt plan to chop down 1,400 trees
The area will then be used for advertising purposes.
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Brace yourself: Water goes scarce as tanker mafia takes over supply chain
One of the two sources of Karachi’s water, Hub Dam, is still at ‘dead’ level.
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An unsolved issue: Central jail remains vulnerable to attacks as KMC, jail officials point fingers
Both parties claim the other is to blame for delays in construction of protective wall and link road.
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Holding back the money: ‘Only investment can fix Karachi’s power crisis’
K-Electric only generating 350MW from own plants, still relies on govt for 650MW, says former chief engineer.
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Public nuisance: When KMC is renting out footpaths, how can encroachments go away?
Shehri takes a 360-degree view of Karachi’s shrinking public spaces.
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Not serving their purpose: Karachi’s sewerage system holds no water
Encroachments on city’s nullahs mean that when it rains, roads and streets will be flooded.
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Price hike in Ramazan: Hoarding, extortion in the time of fasting
Consumers blame shopkeepers for spiralling food prices, shopkeepers blame extortionists and government.
