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Three projects have been started to generate energy from solid waste in Karachi. Such projects will not only make Karachi clean but also create resolve the energy issue.Karachi Mayor Barrister...

Asks the media to compare the stability and development works of his government with other provincial governments.

Foreign contractors charge in dollars for collecting trash from multiple sites across the city

Only after demolishing 6,600 homes and evicting 66,500 people, did the Government of Sindh realise it needed a rehabilitation and resettlement policy.

Despite pouring millions of dollars into Pakistan, the country's biggest city, Karachi was submerged during the extreme flooding last year due to decades of neglect by the authorities to the Karachi's sewage and waste disposal systems that created the perfect recipe for flooding in the city, UK-based publication Climate Home News reported.

Three years later, less than three per cent of the World Banks budget, which it gave as loans to the local Sindh government, was spent. 

Only three per cent of the World Banks USD 100 million funding to help prevent flooding in Karachi was used to flood-proof the city, reported London-based news website The New Arab.

A World Bank climate change adaptation project in Pakistan used less than 3% of its budget despite extreme floods in the country.

On June 9, the World Bank had approved $300m for upgrading rural roads in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

As much as Rs61 billion to fund ongoing schemes