Karachi declared Earth Hour city 31 Major buildings, landmarks unplugs for sixty minutes to observe EH2011 By: Amar Guriro | Published: March 27, 2011 Pakistan Today KARACHI – Despite having intermittent power outages throughout the day thanks to the KESC, the city witnessed another blackout from 8:30pm to 9:30pm on Saturday – albeit of a [...]
SCOPE providing Thatta’s villagers with electricity under the Community Physical Infrastructure Initiative By: Amar Guriro | Published: March 27, 2011 Pakistan Today KARACHI – When two of her daughters were married off two years ago, Noor Khatoon, a housewife, had barely managed to give her daughters a few handmade items, such as ralli (quilts), bed [...]
…………………………………………………………………………. By: Amar Guriro | Published: March 23, 2011 KARACHI – A tsunami in the Arabian Sea can cause widespread destruction in Pakistan and in order to prevent the loss of property and around 400,000 human lives a buffer zone along the coast is needed, said International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Asia Regional [...]
By Amar Guriro | Daily Times Tuesday, September 16, 2008 KARACHI: On average, 100 women are raped every 24 hours in Karachi city alone, and a majority of them are working women, said Additional Police Surgeon (APS) Dr Zulfiqar Siyal. A majority of them are working class women or those working as domestic help and [...]
