Filthy rich: A Karachi sewer operation for a sick city
Garbage and not squatters is the real reason it floods SAMAA | Mahim Maher and Sohail Khan - Posted: Jan 19, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago SAMAA | Mahim Maher and Sohail Khan Posted: Jan 19, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago
Two naughty little boys are having a conversation sitting on top of an empty king-sized sewerage pipeline behind a swarm of city officials surveying Manzoor Colony nullah.
âTera ghar to gira rahey hain,â one of them says. Theyâre demolishing your house.
âAbey, tujhe kaise pata?!â How the hell do you know?
âKyunke wo nishaan laga ke gae na!â he repliesâand then, as if to assuage his buddyâs feelings, hastily and a tad mournfully, adds: âMeri to poori galli ja rahi he.â Because they marked it. My entire alleyway is going…
First lady for maximum facilities for persons with disabilities
Karachi
January 3, 2021
Samina Alvi, the wife of President Arif Alvi, has said the federal government wants to make the persons with disabilities independent by providing them training so that they can get jobs.
Talking to the office bearers of the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) at the KATI office on Saturday, the first lady said the people with disabilities would be given a monthly stipend of Rs2,000 by the end of January under the Ehsaas Kifalat Programme of the federal government.
She said there were many facilities for people with disabilities in the world and lamented that some people considered children with disabilities as a burden. The disabilities in children were neither the fault of the parents nor the children but still people felt ashamed to tell about their children with disabilities, she remarked.
Fibre optic cable laid in Gwadar
EVP says PTCL has taken initiatives to improve internet connectivity in industrial areas
KARACHI:
A new fibre optic cable has been laid in Gwadar which is good news for future investors, said Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) Executive Vice President Abdul Zahir Achakzai.
He was speaking at a meeting with industrialists at the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) on Thursday.
On the international front, the Gwadar city plays a pivotal role under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and by extension under the Silk Road initiative of China. At the local level, the port city is important for Balochistan as well as the rest of Pakistan.