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[20 Aug 2010 | No Comment | Amir Zia]
The Politics of Expediency

The policy of appeasement pursued by successive governments has stood in the way of resolving Karachi’s ethnic turf wars.

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[10 Aug 2010 | No Comment | Rehana Hakim]
Editor’s Note: August 2010

There is a way of addressing tragedy, disaster and violence. And it is unfortunate that those who need to be the most sensitive at such times end up being the most insensitive.

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[29 Mar 2010 | No Comment | Farieha Aziz]

“The biggest challenge is to maintain your self-respect,” says the father of a young girl who was raped.

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[28 Feb 2010 | One Comment | Amir Zia]
The Battle for Karachi

Are the criminalisation of politics and politicisation of crime the biggest problems in Karachi?

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[28 Feb 2010 | No Comment | Amir Zia]
Interview: Waseem Ahmed

“Criminals have entered every political party,” says Waseem Ahmed, Capital City Police Officer in Karachi.

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[28 Feb 2010 | No Comment | Amir Zia]
Interview: Abdul Qadir Patel

“There is no den of heroin or of weapons in Lyari,” says Abdul Qadir Patel, MNA, Pakistan Peoples Party,

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[14 Feb 2010 | No Comment | Rehana Hakim]
Editor’s Note: February 2010

One would’ve expected the ruling coalition to maintain unity in their ranks and set their sights on winning this war against militancy, instead however, they are engaged in fighting their own petty wars. In Karachi, they are killing each other.

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[27 Dec 2009 | 8 Comments | Mohammed Hanif]
A BB Murder Fantasy

It has been two years since Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Here, Mohammed Hanif remembers her life and how it crossed his.

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[20 Dec 2009 | 2 Comments | Talat Hussain]
Hanging by a Thread

The army is gunning for President Zardari, and even a massive public relations push is unlikely to save him.

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Should the KESC Have Been Privatised?

Demands to cancel KESC’s privatisation are surging. The MQM held its first public demonstration against the electric company on July 22, and its senators, MNAs and nazims held a press conference arguing for the re-nationalisation of KESC. Should KESC have been privatised in the first place? “No,” says a former KESC official.