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Sindh, Centre vow to join hands for Karachi’s uplift Asad Umar says differences persist on hospitals, PIDA, census PHOTO: REUTERS KARACHI: Even as Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and federal ministers Asad Umar and Aminul Haque pledged on Saturday to set aside their differences and worked together for the uplift of Karachi, Umar maintained that differences between the Sindh and Centre remained on multiple issues. They were addressing a joint press conference after a meeting of the Karachi Coordination Committee, where the Sindh CM and federal ministers resolved to clean nullahs in the metropolis before the onset of the monsoon season. ....
Pakistan Railways deficit increases by Rs11 billion in 2020 By Pakistan Railways has fewer employees and more pensioners, annual report shows It has to pay a whopping Rs31.42 billion to pensioners Number of railway stations, passengers increased during 2020 The Pakistan Railways deficit has increased from Rs35 billion to Rs46 billion, according to an annual report seen by Geo News on Wednesday. The report revealed that the Railways has fewer employees and more ex-workers who are now pensioners. According to the report, the employees have reduced to 67,627. The Railways has to pay a whopping Rs31.42 billion to pensioners and has to allocate another Rs28.21 billion for its employees. ....
The season of discontent (This article is part of our special series Unmasking Southasia: The pandemic issue. You can read the editorial note to the series here.) The last public protest I attended was on 8 March 2020. Two weeks later, the world changed. It was already changing, of course – had already changed, perhaps – but we didn’t know yet how much or for how long. That day, the gardens surrounding Karachi’s Frere Hall heaved with humans, mostly women; in a satisfying inversion of the status quo, men were allowed only in the company of a woman or a non-binary person. First, we shuffled, single-file, through a metal detector; the day was muggy, and, if we carried water, we had to first sip it under the watchful eye of an organiser, so she could make sure we weren’t smuggling acid onto the premises. Guns, explosives, acid attacks – these were familiar threats. What we hadn’t yet learned to fear was the simple presence of other humans – their breath, their ....
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