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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Opinion The continuing polio challenge Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries that still have the polio virus. Pakistan in spite of... Updated 15 Mar, 2025 07:31am
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
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
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
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
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
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