in Karachi

Sep 25, 2024 | threemagazine.com | in Karachi |Cason Sharpe |Katherine Singh

In her debut book, In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life, Pakistani Canadian journalist Sadiya Ansari chronicles a years-long investigation into one big secret that has long haunted her family: Why did her daadi (grandmother) abandon her seven children to follow a man from Pakistan’s Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab?

Sep 19, 2024 | theguardian.com | in Karachi

Police in southern Pakistan have shot dead a blasphemy suspect during an alleged shootout with armed men, in the second such killing in a week. Police identified the slain man as Shah Nawaz, a doctor in the Umerkot district in the Sindh province, who had gone into hiding two days ago after being accused of insulting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad and sharing blasphemous content on social media.

Apr 1, 2023 | theguardian.com | in Karachi

Pakistani police have arrested eight people in the southern port city of Karachi after a crush killed 12 people at a Ramadan food and cash distribution point a day earlier. Hundreds of women and children rushed to collect free food and cash outside a factory in an industrial area of the city on Friday. Business-owners during the Islamic holy month often hand out cash and food, especially to poorer people.