Tag: Arif Hasan

A LOT of impressive and expensive infrastructure has been developed for Karachi over the last two decades. However, much of it has wiped out the history, green areas and built … Read More

EUROPE destroyed itself and also the rest of the world as a result of World War II. Since it had colonies all over the world, they were also inadvertently drawn … Read More

EVEN before the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct 7, the Palestinian territories were subject to horrible violations of int­ernational law and occupation by Israel. As a result, there were two … Read More

THE barbaric war waged by Israel against Hamas has violated the UN Charter of Human Rights and the laws of war, and is being judged as possible genocide by the … Read More

I HAVE written earlier about the Pakistan Quarters when a proposal for its development was made in 2018 under very different political circumstances. At that time, the Sindh government had … Read More

THERE is much talk about an under-preparation master plan for Karachi. There have been other plans before which have been reduced to a number of uncoordinated projects because they have … Read More

WHEN I began working in low-income settlements in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was no such thing as NGOs and civil society. Activists in low-income settlements usually formed … Read More

EXTRAORDINARILY large cars roam Karachi with fake number plates and, often, Kalashnikov-armed guards sitting in the cabin behind. They follow no traffic regulations, they park wherever they like, and wherever … Read More