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Poisoned toothpaste and exploding phones: Israel’s proxy for war

POISONED toothpaste that takes a month to end its target’s life...

City’s managers prepare to make Islamabad a smoke-free city

The presence of World Health Organisation (WHO) officials has also played a role in the decrease in the prevalence of tobacco in the city...

WHO officials have easy access to various areas and can move about freely in the city due to better security, compared to the rest of the country...

How India's 'Garden City' became garbage city

Hailed first as the country's Garden City and then its Silicon Valley, drawing in multinational IT firms and their monied executives, today Bangalore is paying a heavy price for its success ? it's a city overflowing with garbage, its infrastructure and waste collection services unable to keep up with decades of unchecked growth...

Located on a plateau and blessed with a relatively cool climate, the city is dotted with public parks and...

Man City dazzle as United held by Hull City

LONDON: Manchester City turned on the style to dismantle West Ham United 4-0 and revive their fading Premier League title aspirations as Manchester United’s hopes suffered a potentially fatal blow with a goalless home draw against struggling Hull City on Wednesday...

City produced a scintillating first-half display, scoring three times before the break through Kevin De Bruyne, David Silva and new boy Gabriel Jesus, before Yaya Toure’s...

Karachi City of Lights festival brings a glow to arts

KARACHI: With temperatures rising in the city, it wouldn’t be surprising to see only a few leaving their homes to attend any event but by the evening considerable number of people had gathered to see the public space luminous with art installations and performers entertaining audiences...

A joint effort of the Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP) and ‘I AM Karachi’, the Karachi City of Lights Festival brought a glowing radiance to...

Opposition protest mars City Council proceedings in Karachi

KARACHI: A noisy protest by members of opposition parties on Tuesday forced Mayor Wasim Akhtar to prorogue the City Council session in less than 10 minutes after the house passed a single resolution relating to a trivial issue...

He said the elected mayor of the city, unfortunately, showed that he could not run the KMC even at par with the efficiency of the administrators of the recent past...

City School PAF win Karachi Girls Netball Cup in style

KARACHI: City School PAF Chapter (Blue) proved their superiority by outplaying rivals in both junior (schools) and senior (colleges) categories to win the Karachi Girls Netball Cup here at the PSB Coaching Centre on Thursday...

In the junior (schools) category, the thrilling final was played between City School PAF Chapter (Blue) and Habib Girls School teams which was won by City School 7-6 to become the champions of Karachi Girls...

City Council demands Rs500bn package for Karachi uplift

KARACHI: The city council on Wednesday passed a resolution demanding that the Sindh and federal governments immediately sanction at least Rs500 billion as a joint package for Karachi’s development...

“Karachi is a huge metropolis...

Economist's report marks Karachi as most unsafe city in world

Karachi has been named among the least safe cities of the world in a report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) — the research and analysis division of The Economist Group...

Asia and the Middle East and Africa dominate the bottom of the index as Dhaka, Yangon and Karachi are at the bottom of the list...

Karachi — a case study of an unsustainable city

The more developed a city, the more sophisticated and expanded an infrastructure network it needs to maintain its growth momentum...

Urban economists, however, lament the low level of current investment for development of civic facilities in Karachi which hosts the country’s premier financial and capital markets and is a major commercial and industrial hub and a port city...

‘Karachi Biennale played important role in city’s life’

KARACHI: A panel discussion on the recently held first Karachi Biennale (KB) took place at the Amin Gulgee Gallery on Thursday...

Answering the question about how she saw KB 17, Ms Afroze said she came to Karachi in the 1970s when there were not many art galleries but there were individuals such as Ali Imam, Bashir Mirza, Kohari and Sadequain who had open minds...

Karachi to be made smart city, says mayor

KARACHI: Mayor Wasim Akhtar has said that Karachi will carry on its progress towards becoming a smart city on the lines of Singapore, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid and Stockholm...

“Municipal governments need such support especially with the rapid growth of urbanisation in most megacities of the world,” said the mayor of Karachi on Monday while speaking to the media at his office after returning home from the Russian city, Ulyanovsk,...

Transporters call off strike as negotiations continue on movement of heavy traffic in Karachi city

Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair on Wednesday said goods transporters in Karachi had called off their strike in protest of a Sindh High Court (SHC) ban on the movement of heavy traffic within the city during daytime, Geo News reported...

The SHC had in March directed the transport secretary and the city traffic police chief to immediately enforce a ban on the movement of heavy vehicles in the city during daytime after citizens...

‘Karachi’s water, electricity being given to Bahria Town, DHA City’

KARACHI: Historian Gul Hasan Kalamati gave the people of Karachi a lot to think about on Saturday evening when he said that water and electricity meant for Karachi were being redirected to Bahria Town and DHA City...

Mr Kalamati said that the people living in these gated communities might never suffer from water shortages or loadshedding while the situation in Karachi would just become unbearable...

Karachi costliest, Lahore cheapest city: State Bank of Pakistan

KARACHI: Dispelling the impression that Islamabad is Pakistan’s costliest city, Karachi has emerged as the most expensive metropolis in the country while Lahore is the least expensive...

According to State Bank’s Inflation Monitor, June 2016, inflation in Karachi – once known as a poor man’s city – has been at its highest level during the year, leaving the capital city of Islamabad way behind...