Karachi

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

As the province goes into lockdown, how do the city's marginalised fare?

Two of them belong to mosques situated in Orangi Town while another one is Imam of Memon Masjid Kharadar

As the province goes into lockdown, how do the city's marginalised fare?

Central Jail Karachi holds over 3,600 inmates, with capacity for only 2,400

Crowds flock to mosques, disregarding law enforcers' repeated pleas to pray at home

With all the city’s veterinary facilities closed, consultations via phone are the only way out

People start distributing food items among daily-wage workers in the city

Wholesale body official says people are stocking up more than usual

They also burned down her house after dispute with her son over pigeon flying contest

CM Murad Ali Shah orders purchase of 290 ventilators, 150 testing machines and 110,000 testing kits

Edhi workers taking patients to public and private hospitals told there are no facilities to admit them

From being diagnosed to being treated as a pariah and then emerging healthy, Yahya Jaffrey shares his COVID-19 ordeal

JPMC head denies shortage, says gear is given to only those working in isolation, emergency wards

Affluent people start distributing food items among daily wagers in the city

Photograph of dolphin’s carcass went viral on social media last week

Police claim to have arrested at least 119 people, registering 29 cases for the violation of Section 144

As an uneasy quietude prevails in Karachi, some continue to flout orders to stay home

Govt issues decree protecting jobs, pay of industrial, commercial workers

Citizens are being warned to stay home through announcements on loudspeakers