Karachi

Public hospitals not taking care while disposing isolation ward trash

SHO says acting on verbal orders but Karachi Commissioner Iftikhar Shallwani denied issuing such directives

Social distancing difficult to implement in slums, says WHO's Mike Ryan while recognising Pakistan's Covid-19...

Enraged residents allegedly attacked the police van in PIB Colony

The country's low testing capacity has made it further difficult to assess the actual number of coronavirus patients

It will be used for shipping 2,000 containers from the port

Ayub's father ran from pillar to post for three hours before he could get him admitted to isolation ward

‘Megacity suffers from a deficit of 135 MGD, receives a total of 65 MGD of water’

Sindh police registers case

Steps have been taken to ensure policemen’s safety and protection

‘Most doctors wear glasses and now have nowhere to get them repaired’

Security forces also conduct awareness session regarding contraction and prevention from novel coronavirus

CM expresses concern over majority cases being reported from Karachi

645 COVID-19 patients kept in home isolation while 60 housed at isolation centres

Farheen Naveed distributes rations among needy in confidentiality, ensuring their self-respect is not hurt

Worshipers prayed for the country, world to get through the pandemic

Entire area in limits of UCs 21 and 24 sealed instead of just streets where COVID-19 incidence is high

Known for his defence of press freedom, Rahman lost battle to throat cancer on his birthday

Govt walks back initial decision to shut down 11 UCs, elects to seal only affected streets

20% of tests conducted during last 24 hours have come out positive, says Murad Ali Shah

The officials said the strategy will soon be proposed to the Sindh government

With no checks and balances or cost controls in place, shopkeepers and wholesalers capitalise on the lockdown

More cases in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Saddar attributed to more testing; other areas going under the radar: health officials

Father-in-law assaults woman for refusing to do household chores

Authority is further deliberating on the recommendation of obliging recovered patients to donate plasma

Scores of Hindu, Christian and Sikh volunteers are providing rations, sanitation products in low-income areas

Sources say provincial government will bring an ordinance to amend the Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance, 1979

Heavy contingent of police and Rangers has been deployed at several checkpoints

Dr Abdul Qadir Soomro established a special ward for virus-infected patients at Al-Khidmat Hospital

Punjab records 538 new coronavirus cases on Monday – the highest single-day spike so far across Pakistan

At least 12 people have been injured by sharpened kite strings in the past few days

With all business suspended, city’s cobbler community bears the financial brunt of the lockdown

‘Aside from exhausting entire savings worth Rs2.5 million, it took over six months of labour to make this sculpture’

A truck carrying 43 people to Mansehra at exorbitant rates was stopped near Fawwara Chowk

Sindh Health Department hasn't released coronavirus lab updates in past 36 hours

The suspects were part of a group that attacked police officials in Liaquatabad on Friday

Request mechanism for providing relief to perturbed industrialists

Volunteers can help residents in various areas including food distribution and public awareness

Charlatans operating despite lockdown, without any fear of raid, says PMA official

Blood plasma of recovered patients may help treat critically ill people

PMA launches remote consultancy service to aid citizens amid lockdown

A doctor who treated first COVID-19 patient in Pakistan shares his experience

With boat services to Keamari suspended, a ban on fishing, and dwindling food supplies, islanders fear starvation

Though Karachi generates 12,000 tonnes of trash per day, garbage disposal has paused in many areas

Confusion prevails about when and where they will receive the food pledged by the government

City mayor says says funds have been requested to turn KMC hospitals into COVID-19 centres

With minimal traffic and limited industrial activity, Karachi's environmental issues have eased up

Muslims distribute food items to Hindu and Christian daily wagers in FC area

Shops to open for two hours a day so that animals, exhausted and sick after week-long starvation, can be fed

Liaquat National Hospital doctor recently returned from Ijtimah in Punjab