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21 Feb, 26

Reckless driving claims 4 lives in 2 separate incidents in Karachi

KARACHI: Rash and negligent driving claimed the lives of four people in two separate incidents in Karachi early on Friday morning, police said. A total of 803 people lost their lives in traffic accidents in Karachi in 2025. The Karachi traffic police, however, maintains that the situation began to improve during the latter half of the year. […]

21 Feb, 26

Karachi’s broken streets

Deaths, directly linked with the hazardous condition of Karachi, are neither new nor rare EVERY day we come across roads that are dug up repeatedly across Karachi for laying gas, sewerage, or water pipelines. Frustrated and anxious, people struggle and even jeopardise their lives just to reach their destinations. Excavating the roads and leaving uneven […]

21 Feb, 26

Seven killed in two Karachi road accidents amid rain

At least seven people, including a child and a woman, were killed and several others injured in two separate road accidents near Karachi on Tuesday as rainfall made roads slippery, officials said. In the first incident, a multi-vehicle collision occurred on the M-9 Motorway near DHA City Karachi during rain, leaving four people dead and […]

21 Feb, 26

Govt says no power or gas loadshedding during Sehr, Iftar

The power and petroleum ministers on Wednesday assured the nation that there would be no electricity and gas loadshedding during Sehr and Iftar throughout the month of Ramazan. Addressing a joint press conference alongside Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik, Power Minister Awais Leghari said, “We have decided that there will be absolutely no loadshedding in […]

21 Feb, 26

No load-shedding during Sehri, Iftar in Karachi during Ramadan: K-Electric

Karachi’s sole power supplier, K-Electric, has announced that there will be no load-shedding across the city during Sehri and Iftar timings throughout the holy month of Ramadan, ARY News reported. According to a statement issued by the power utility, a special electricity supply schedule has been prepared for Ramadan to ensure uninterrupted power during peak […]

21 Feb, 26

KE presents formula for loadshedding-free city

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of K-Electric, Moonis Ali has presented a practical formula to eliminate load shedding in Karachi. Speaking at a session with the Council of Economic and Energy Journalists (CEEJ) on Saturday, Ali revealed that 300 of the 2,129 electricity feeders in Karachi are responsible for 87% of total power losses, making […]

21 Feb, 26

Sindh High Court orders KWC to deliver water via pipelines, slams tankers

Summary Summary AI Generated Summary In a scathing indictment of Karachi’s water department, the constitutional bench of the Sindh High Court expressed its exasperation with the city’s persistent water supply issues and directed the water department to supply water to the residents of Karachi directly through pipelines and not through water tankers. During the hearing, which […]

21 Feb, 26

Why Karachi Thirsts For Water

Water ‘tankers’ barrelling down the road are a common sight even in Karachi’s ‘posh’ areas, illustrating the greatest issueThe present water supply of Karachi, like that of many Eastern Cities, is insufficient. It has a capacity of only 11 to 15 million gallons per day, whereas the water demand for the city in the first stage of development […]

21 Feb, 26

SHC questions disparity as tanker water flows but supply lines run dry

A constitutional bench of the Sindh High Court expressed displeasure at officials of the Karachi Water Corporation during a hearing on a petition regarding non-supply of water to a citizen’s home in Karachi’s Orangi Town on Saturday. Justice Adnanul-Karim Memon observed that the Mayor of Karachi had said water would be supplied through lines, and […]

21 Feb, 26

Water supply to be suspended in many Karachi areas due to pipeline repair

KARACHI: The city is expected to face a daily water shortage of around 200 million gallons for at least four days as the Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation (KWSC) begins repair work on a leaking 84-inch diameter main water line on Monday. The leak was detected in the Phase-I main water line in Block 19 […]