Lack of legal implementation continues to fence female farmers from being held in the same regard as men KARACHI: It was for the first time in the history of Sindh that a landmark ruling had hinted at the possibility of...
Author - Hafeez Tunio
Hafeez Tunio
Chaos in PA over city’s water woes
KARACHI: Amid a chaotic session on Friday as opposition lawmakers protested the water shortage in Karachi, the Sindh Assembly passed The Sindh Evacuee Trust Properties (Management and Disposal) Act 2019, for “the...
Govt unable to answer for dormant water schemes
KARACHI: For the third time in two years, the Sindh Public Health Engineering Department minister failed to provide a satisfactory answer to queries over nonfunctional mega drinking water schemes in various districts of...
Another World Toilet Day sans public toilets
Hammad Shah, a fourth-grade student, doesn’t remember his school ever having functional toilets. Located in the low-income local of Ibrahim Hyderi, the toilets at the Government Boys School, Rehri, have always been seen...
Quenching thirst: Solar-powered solution to Sindh’s drinking water needs
Health engineering dept has finalised an ambitious plan to install water purifiers in govt schools, health facilities PHOTO: FILE KARACHI:Providing clean drinking water is something many of Sindh’s government schools...
Non-functional RO plants create water scarcity
Workers claim the plants frequently develop faults because of substandard quality of machinery A representational image. PHOTO: REUTERS KARACHI:Despite spending billions of rupees on the installation of Reverse Osmosis...
COVID-19: Sindh govt to distribute soaps as part of health awareness campaign
Provincial government stresses that the exercise must be completed in five days CM Murad chairing a meeting with health department on March 17. PHOTO: EXPRESS ARACHI: The Sindh government on Tuesday ordered every union...
Sindh to levy tax ground, surface water for commercial use
It is proposed that an initial pricing of Rs1 per litre tax be placed Representational image. PHOTO: REUTERS KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet gave a nod to finalise the ‘Sindh Water Act 2020,’ under which taxes...
Facing piles of trash, Sindh officials take the easy way out in Karach
Facing piles of trash, Sindh officials take the easy way out in Karachi Over 1,200 tonnes of domestic waste are dumped, burned at Malir riverbed on a daily basis Garbage trucks line up to dump trash at the Malir...
Schools across Islamabad to teach climate change
KARACHI: The truth of the climate emergency announces itself regularly all over the world, making it impossible for both developed and developing nations to deny that the world faces an environmental catastrophe...