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Volunteering: an indicator of a healthy and inclusive society
It involves the commitment of time and energy for the benefit of society and community manifesting in many forms.
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Karachi needs to welcome its 'visitors'
Migration into the city is not a menace but an opportunity.
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Proper local governance in Karachi will help the city, the province, the country
Karachi is practically functioning, or rather malfunctioning, without a city government these days.
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Karachi must adopt a DIY approach to its problem
Such cities need to be financially prosperous and mostly self-sufficient.
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Karachi has a lot on its plate, but it is still food insecure
Efficient land use can make the city grow enough to feed itself.
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Karachi needs to walk off its energy crisis
the cityscape catered more and more to technology rather than its living, breathing inhabitants
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Karachi - Struggling to survive as a viable urban entity
Karachi, despite bad governance, continues to contribute most towards the running of the economic engine of the nation
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Land violations and crime go hand-in-hand in Karachi
The methodology of the study was implemented in two phases.
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Karachi suffers from a dysfunctional land management system
More than half of the city’s population now lives in squatter settlements.
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Karachi continues to spread but without direction
Urban population recorded during the 1998 census was nearly 43m, but was estimated to be around 63.1m in 2010
