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Karachi’s holey roads

Sep 23, 2024 | asianews.network | Hawwa Fazal |Hawwa Fazal Dawn

September 24, 2024 KARACHI – Why do Karachi’s roads cave in each time it pours? The answer lies somewhere between negligence and indifference. A wise man once said: “When it rains, water comes. And when it rains some more, more water comes.”What this wise man failed to explain to the over 20 million citizens of Karachi was why each time it rains, Karachi ends up looking like the remnants of Moen Jo Daro (in all honesty, it doesn’t look like Paris at any other time of the year either).
Intimidation, harassment and sexual innuendos: White coats don’t shield women in medicine in Pakistan

Sep 6, 2024 | images.dawn.com | Hawwa Fazal

The harassment of women doctors at hospitals is nothing new, nor is the lack of adequate measures to ensure their safety. The issue has been around for decades, all over the world, but the recent rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in India’s Kolkata brought the issue back into the spotlight.
A history of high-profile court martials in Pakistan

Aug 15, 2024 | dawn.com | Hawwa Fazal

Former intelligence chief retired Lt Gen Faiz Hameed has been formally indicted on “charges of engaging in political activities”, the military’s media affairs wing announced on Tuesday, making him the first ex-spymaster to be indicted for violating the Pakistan Army Act.
Lives lost, lessons unlearned: Fire in the city by the sea

Jul 1, 2024 | dawn.com | Hawwa Fazal

At the far corner of the pediatric unit at Karachi Burns Center, a woman desperately tries to latch her daughter for feeding. The infant, covered in gauze, fails to hold on as her shrill cries fill the room, cutting through the white walls of the facility. Two-year-old Fariha Hassan bears the burns of a fire that ripped through her apartment in Kharadar last week. The story is not unheard of; a gas cylinder explosion that engulfed her family into flames.
Planting hope - an artist’s upside-down solution to Karachi’s air pollution

May 16, 2024 | dawn.com | Hawwa Fazal

Welcome to Karachi, Pakistan’s bustling economic hub, where not only has the struggle for necessities like public transport and clean water become a daily battle, but the rising air pollution has made breathing difficult too. Amid these difficulties, one artist has proposed an innovative solution to combat the city’s increasingly unbreathable air: planting air purifiers in homes.
SC orders barricade removal from pavements outside all govt, private offices within 3 days

Apr 25, 2024 | dawn.com | Hawwa Fazal

The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ordered private entities and government authorities, provincial and federal, to remove all encroachments made on pavements for security purposes within three days.
Small victories - minorities in power corridors in Pakistan

Apr 4, 2024 | dawn.com | Hawwa Fazal

More than seven decades ago, during a speech on the floor of Pakistan’s first Constituent Assembly, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah expressed a hope:“You will find that in the course of time, Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the state,” the founder of the country said.
A year on, pink buses continue to empower women on Karachi’s roads

Mar 28, 2024 | dawn.com | Hawwa Fazal

Brightly coloured pink buses, seldom seen on the roads of Karachi, are like a fragile thread suturing the wounds borne by women after years of transport woes and facing harassment on the city’s streets. Emblazoned with logos of various brands, and loaded with women belonging to different classes and ethnicities, the dedicated bus service, comprising 18 vehicles only runs on three main routes — Model Colony to Merewether Tower, North Karachi to Korangi and Numaish Chowrangi to Sea View Beach.
More than half the world faces high measles risk: WHO

Feb 20, 2024 | dawn.com | Wara Irfan |Hawwa Fazal

More than half the world’s countries will be at high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year unless urgent preventative measures are taken, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Tuesday. Measles cases have been increasing across most regions mainly due to missed vaccinations during the Covid-19 years when health systems were overwhelmed and fell behind on routine vaccinations for preventable diseases.
Karakoram Highway blocked for third day as heavy rains lash GB

Feb 20, 2024 | dawn.com | Umar Bacha |Wara Irfan |Hawwa Fazal

Thousands of passengers travelling to and from Gilgit-Baltistan were stranded on the Karakoram Highway (KKH) on Tuesday as landslides triggered by heavy rains blocked the main artery at multiple points. Intermittent rain and snowfall have disrupted life in the region for the past three days. As temperatures dropped below zero, electricity remained suspended in several areas.