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Marked men: Six police officers walk around with ‘targets’ on their backs
Ever since the attack on the SSP, police officers are seen as threats - not heroes.
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Steel Mills corruption case: Three years on, FIA fails to make headway in probe
Several ‘final challans’ have been submitted in the case.
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Karachi search operation: 36 suspects apprehended in Pak Colony
300 police personnel cordon off areas, seize two licensed pistols.
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City violence: After SC, rights group slams ‘irresponsible’ political parties
Fact-finding mission urges groups to decriminalise and decommission their weapons.
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Sunni Tehreek Protests: ST chief to be held till Oct 11
Rangers arrested two leaders of Sunni Tehrik after raiding its central office on charges of setting a bus on fire.
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Overworked, underpaid: Lady health workers block highway
The women have not been given permanent jobs or paid in four months.
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Convention: Sindh lawyers outraged at suggestion that they are ‘incompetent’
Lawyers from rural Sindh feel they may be behind in education but are just as capable.
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Mental health: Govt to blame for more than half of all suicides: PAMH
Poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment are factors that contribute to depression.
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Celebrating 50 years of staring at the stars
Students display designs, equipment and space technology simulations.
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Discipline: City officers to explain why they are chronically late for work
Chief gags all staff from speaking to the media.
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Law and order: ‘Karachi’s security has reasonably improved, but this won’t last’
Interior Minister says he ordered the raid on the Sunni Tehreek offices as they were shutting down shops.
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‘Minister-ing to friends: PML-F just said ‘hello’, but is it ‘goodbye’ now over MQM’s re-entry?
The PML-F has 8 members in the Sindh Assembly and four ministries. MQM claims it never asked for specific ministries.
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Transfers and postings: Wassan, Saud fight over SHOs
Police chief rankled by bribery allegations over short term posting of SHOs.
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Political parties harbour private militias, criminal gangs: HRCP
HRCP report says 1000 people killed in Karachi so far this year, 100 in a single August week alone.
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Government cognisant of implementing SC's verdict on Karachi violence: President
A meeting was held to brief the President on the steps being taken to implement the SC judgement.
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Illegal occupation: All agencies to help KPT ‘save the ecosystem’ by removing squatters
Influential people are reclaiming land and dumping debris at the port.
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Medical agenda: Doctor claims that VCs don’t take their jobs seriously
Dr Shershah criticises the committee for violating the rules and regulations.
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Health hazard: Ghee makers summoned to court
Citizen files petition, claims manufacturers use second-rate tin canisters to package ghee and oil.
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International event: Expo Pakistan to be held from Oct 20
Expo Pakistan is scheduled to be held from October 20 to 23 at Karachi Expo Centre.
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Maintenance of Public Order: SHC dismisses petitions against Afaq’s detention
Both pleas questioned the government’s decision to detain Afaq under MPO.
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Pakistan Institute of Interior Designers: For people who work with spaces, a platform of their own
The real show stealer was a chair made of zebra skin and what looked like an elephant leg.
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Curbing crime: 120 Rangers personnel deployed in SITE
Enhanced patrolling needed against extortionists and kidnappers.
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Rolling stones: Grumbling SHOs sit tests amid pressure to clean up Karachi
SHOs complain frequent transfers and corruption are affecting their performance.
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October 7, 2010: Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine attack case unsolved one year on
Teen crippled that day refuses to return to Karachi.
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Karachi suo motu: SC leaves the door open to outlawing political parties
Legally the IG, ECP would give the federal government a reference that the SC would take up.
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A piece of the pie: PML-F refuses to give up ‘MQM’ ministries
Meetings with Pir Pagara today to decide plan of action.
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Sharif in Sindh: 'Current govt most corrupt'
Public money should be spent on public, Nawaz says to crowd in Daulatpur.
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Gearing up for elections: Nawaz woos people in Zardari’s hometown
Promises to lead a revolution to create a ‘new’ Pakistan.
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Sunni Tehrik leaders arrested, while Karachi is gripped by fear, again
Rehman Malik orders Rangers, Police to maintain law and order in the city.
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What happened to the 92 cops who disappeared after 1992?
The force’s morale is low because criminals, politicians and terrorists don’t let them do their duty: SC.
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Homecoming: MQM ministers go back to work as confusion prevails over portfolios
The local govt 2001 issue will be brought before the assembly soon.
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Unpaid health workers ratchet up protests
Nine lady health workers threaten to burn themselves on Saturday.
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Bank heist: Rs4 million stolen from bank in North Nazimabad
The robbers took security footage and cameras with them.
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Delayed justice: Jirga fines former SHO Rs2.5m for killing man
Noor Ahmed Pechuho accepted the verdict and paid Rs200,000.
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Medical awareness: DCOs to be held responsible for polio outbreak in their districts
From 2010 to September 2011, 102 polio cases had been reported in the county out of which 19 were in Sindh.
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Top gun: Race for next IG Sindh picks up momentum
Two main contenders rise as Wajid Durrani’s departure becomes imminent.
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Transmission zone: Tharparkar at risk of malaria outbreak
Officials claim there is no need to panic as the situation is under control.
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Informed citizenry: ‘Shehris’ advocate people’s right to information
Workshop highlights importance of questioning authority in the public sphere.
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‘Karachi is a volcano - once it erupts the govt won’t be able to do anything’
As long as licences are handed out for prohibited and non-prohibited bore weapons, the crime rate will be impossible.
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Ethnic polarisation: Supreme Court suggests altering police station boundaries
The limits should be based on administrative not political needs
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Karachi suo motu: MQM welcomes Supreme Court verdict
MQM says it has directed all units and sectors to take action against any miscreants in the party.
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Karachi suo motu: Verdict out
Supreme Court rules out ban on MQM during hearing of suo motu case on target killings in Karachi.
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Political masterstroke: After assuaging PML-Q, PPP wins back MQM
MQM and PML-Q appear to race each other in attempt to rejoin ruling coalition.
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Court notices: District government summoned over relief goods
According to them, all 301 displaced people at the camp were not receiving rations and other relief goods.
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Psychological space: With burnt leaves and double-sided tape, artists explore raw emotions
The intricate word-pattern made the ‘kharghosh’ and ‘Murgi’ look like poetry.
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Power cuts: Upper Sindh goes without power for about 36 hours
All the conductors of the main transmission lines needed replacing.
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Public spaces: Charged parking for New MA Jinnah Road
“A parking fee of Rs10 will be charged per vehicle being parked by car showroom owners"
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Flood rehabilitation: ADB to fund the improvement of Sindh’s cities
Urban services have spent Rs40 million on new machinery.
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Extortion mafia: Traders protest killing of sink plate merchant
Men entered his shop and shot him dead when he refused to pay extortion money.
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Dengue has killed 1% of patients, don’t panic, just be careful, say experts
Dehydration is the main cause of complications and not necessarily low platelets.