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Zia Ul Islam Zuberi

Traffic fines
Opinion

Traffic fines

The Sindh government recently announced that it is amending the motor vehicle law which will increase the fines...
Updated 14 Jun, 2025 07:59am
Some nightmarish flights
Opinion

Some nightmarish flights

It was a horrible nightmarish experience for passengers on a flight from Karachi to Lahore recently. Passengers were...
Updated 07 Jun, 2025 05:49am
Remembering Civil Defence
Opinion

Remembering Civil Defence

As someone who has lived through three wars with India in 1965, 1971 and then the recent conflict in 2025 I was a...
Updated 31 May, 2025 07:48am
Conflicts in history
Opinion

Conflicts in history

So what would you equate the senseless charge of the Indians under the assumption that they will overwhelm the armed...
Updated 24 May, 2025 08:00am
Tackling water shortages
Opinion

Tackling water shortages

Water is the most important topic these days. Everywhere you go people are discussing water and the threats to its...
Updated 17 May, 2025 07:40am
Let us be prepared
Opinion

Let us be prepared

The heatwave season has begun. Already, Karachi is passing through the first of these heat waves as temperatures...
Updated 10 May, 2025 07:46am
Respect the rickshaw
Opinion

Respect the rickshaw

After daily and frightfully shocking traffic incidents that mostly involved heavy transport vehicles like dumper...
Updated 03 May, 2025 07:30am
Warning shot from nature
Opinion

Warning shot from nature

There were heavy hailstorms lashing out at Islamabad and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last Wednesday. These were no...
Published 26 Apr, 2025 02:57am
Wasteful water habits
Opinion

Wasteful water habits

I remember how in my childhood I would come home from school and being thirsty after a long walk go straight to the...
Updated 19 Apr, 2025 07:42am
The manhole menace
Opinion

The manhole menace

Another child falls into a manhole to lose his life to these gaping open death traps that should better be named as...
Published 12 Apr, 2025 05:40am
Shadow over Eid
Opinion

Shadow over Eid

For those of us who think and feel a shadow was cast over Eid celebrations this year. Tragedy after tragedy struck...
Published 05 Apr, 2025 06:24am
Go fly a kite
Opinion

Go fly a kite

How many of us have heard the expression “Go fly a kite”. Usually, it means go away and stop bothering me. A simple...
Published 29 Mar, 2025 02:58am
Crisis of accidents
Opinion

Crisis of accidents

Fatalities in traffic accidents in Karachi majority of them inflicted by heavy vehicles has even caught attention of...
Published 22 Mar, 2025 02:47am
Reclaimed land
Opinion

Reclaimed land

Every time you look up there is another tall building rising into the blue sky from the sea level in Clifton. At the...
Published 08 Mar, 2025 02:48am
The beauty of Ramazan
Opinion

The beauty of Ramazan

Ramazan is just around the corner and this year in Pakistan we will also be having some World Cup cricket matches...
Updated 01 Mar, 2025 07:03am
Working with the municipality
Opinion

Working with the municipality

Working in a Canadian company in Ottawa, Canada, in the early seventies I was so eager to see snowfall. Having grown...
Published 22 Feb, 2025 06:31am
A city wearing gloves
Opinion

A city wearing gloves

The first five days of this month forced me to return to a topic on which I have written several times. The reason...
Published 15 Feb, 2025 06:34am
Begging in Karachi
Opinion

Begging in Karachi

The growing menace of beggars at traffic lights was brought to the attention of courts the other day by a petition...
Updated 08 Feb, 2025 07:18am
Election promises
Opinion

Election promises

The world is changing at a dizzying pace. This change has now got fresh stimulus with the election of Donald Trump ...
Published 01 Feb, 2025 06:30am