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Court acquits MQM-P sector in-charge Court acquits MQM-P sector in-charge PHOTO: FILE A local court acquitted on Wednesday Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s (MQM-P’s) Lines Area sector in-charge Ali Hassan Zaidi in a case pertaining to attack on a local leader of the Awami National Party. An additional district and sessions judge was hearing the plea challenging the accusations against the MQM-P member at City Court Karachi. At the hearing, the prosecution failed to prove accusations against Zaidi. Hence, the court acquitted Zaidi on the basis a lack of evidence. The court also direct...

‘Demand for electric geysers up by 30 per cent due to gas crisis’ Karachi December 20, 2020 Karachi’s residents are facing sporadic gas outages and low gas pressure, making their lives miserable during this year’s cold spell, as is evident by the rise in the demand for electric geysers by a whopping 30 per cent and for electric hotplates by 15 per cent in comparison to last winter. Citing these figures, Karachi Electronics Dealers Association President Muhammad Rizwan Irfan told The News that mostly families have been make their way to markets in search of electric geysers and hotpl...

Underpasses, flyovers and parking plazas are often presented as the epitome of development. But such expensive interventions usually fail to improve neighbourhoods because their very conceptualisation is flawed and does not take on board the real issues of people they are meant to be for. What can planning learn from the failures of the past? Illustration by Samiah Bilal Midas, the king of Phrygia, was renowned for his wealth. According to the Greeks, his fabulous riches were the result of the kindness he showed to Silenus, the old goat-like tutor of Dionysus, the god of wine, vegetation and ...