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Zia Ul Islam ZuberiBusiness Recorder |
It was in June just last year that 209 Pakistanis and 28 from Pakistan-administered Kashmir drowned off the Greek coast in the Mediterranean trying to...
Deaths in traffic accidents have become such a serious matter that the Karachi police chief had to hold a press conference to sound the alert and...
Walking is such a blessing. You realize when, for one reason or the other, this God given gift is restricted or hindered due to some accident or...
Don’t have the exact date but print media first appearing in the form of newspaper dates back to the 17th century. Over the centuries that it has...
While working for a Swiss firm I had the opportunity to welcome several foreigners to Karachi and after taking care of company matters during the day...
In an attempt to seek her opinion, I sent an article to a colleague and in return got a short message or should I say mini message just consisting of...
In the early days of Pakistan, we did not have the luxury of Sui gas. I still remember my mother cooking on coals and wood which were burnt in iron...
A horrible accident took place around the Native Jetty Bridge the other day. A truck with containers was crossing the bridge when one of the...
It has been abnormally hot in the city of Karachi. The daytime temperatures have, at times, been above 40 degrees and the whole city is sizzling....
Do you know how many children are out of schools in Pakistan? In 2021 the number was 26.2 million, which reached 26 million in 2024, prompting the...
There is an alarming increase in the number of some species of animals that dominate the landscape in Karachi. This includes both the flying types and...
Books that in days gone by had our undivided attention are now competing with many other competitors. There was a time when we were overjoyed to lay...
Looks and feels like good news but then there is many a slip between the cup and the lip as the saying goes. We will now be able to get learners...
I wonder how many children in modern times have even seen a comic book. In my childhood comic books were the heartbeat of a majority of children. From...
Poverty is found in different shapes and sizes in the country. Not many families can eat meat even a few times in a month or for that matter enjoy the...
There is startling data regarding snatching of motorcycles in the city of Karachi. According to Citizen Police Liaison Committee better known as CPLC,...
Traffic accidents have been the most disturbing news in the past weeks. There was this unfortunate accident in which a young woman ran over a father...
As climate change threatens the country there are also apprehensions about the negative effects it will have on farm produce in the country, which is...
It was not too long ago that I had written about the unusual deaths by lightning strikes across the country. This unusual phenomenon has only...
American astronaut Neil Armstrong when he placed his foot on the surface of moon for the first time said “That is one small step for man, one giant...
Everyone seems to be complaining these days, whether you are in a wedding party or any other gathering for that matter, the talk always turns to what...
Every day horrific stories of people dying in road accidents are increasing. Many of them are the most vulnerable motorcyclists. Zig zag and in and...
I know that in every young heart there is a desire to explore the world .For those who have never travelled there are exaggerated imaginations of...
According to definitions of the responsibility and scope of work of household workers they may clean homes, plan and cook meals, do laundry,...
Nearly every household in Karachi has heard this person making the rounds, especially if you are living in apartment blocks situated in middle class...
So what is the hottest topic in the city these days? Yes it is heatstroke. With city temperatures soaring to heights that the citizens of this city...
Burn injuries not only cause a great number of fatalities across the world but are also the most traumatic in nature. You will be surprised to know...
All the predictions about weather change are coming true. As a result various parts of the world were recently hit by extreme weather and Pakistan is...
The most popular slogan during the recent India-Pakistan match in the T20 World Cup was “The biggest blockbuster of any game in the world”. Truly,...
My childhood remembrance of Eidul Azha goes back to the sixties. We lived then in Jacob Lines, which were government barracks. Clean neat with roofs...
It was a horrifying nightmarish flight for the passengers on board a flight from London to Singapore as the plane hit clear air turbulence near...
A Sindh High Court (SHC) bench comprising Justice Salahuddin Panhwar and Justice Mohammad Abdur Rahman has directed provincial and local authorities...
The Punjab Transport Department will provide 20,000 motorcycles to students on easy monthly installments. An agreement for this was signed recently...
There are suggestions that all the heavy vehicular traffic that passes through main arteries of Karachi be diverted to the Lyari Expressway relieving...
A young man played a prank which got nearly the whole nation or at least the city of Karachi involved and in an atmosphere of despondency born out of...
These are frightening figures The estimated child abuse in Pakistan is more than 12 per day, in which out of total reported cases of child abuse 2,325...
Unexpected rainfall in April in Karachi. Actually, totally unexpected weather not only in Karachi but in the entire country and specially in the...
This year in Karachi the sanctity of the holy month of Ramazan and the festivities leading to the celebration of Eid were overshadowed by the sharp...
Eid is just around the corner. There is the usual complaining about rising prices and the shop-keepers taking undue advantage of the sudden surge in...
At last count there were a total of 2,717 shrines in India while in Pakistan that figure was 3400. These are the well-known ones otherwise the figure...
Not many people know that in the early days of Pakistan when the lion roared in the Karachi Zoo the roar could be heard as far away in what was at...
In western countries it is quite normal for people to visit a psychiatrist. The topic itself creates images of a comfortable sofa popularly known as...
Two more members of an airline from Pakistan slipped away in Toronto recently. This brings to eight such incidents in the past one year. It is not a...
Pakistan is among the most affected countries by climate change. The irony of the situation is that while the industrialised world reaps the benefits...
Karachi is home to two of the busiest ports of Pakistan, the Karachi Port and Port Qasim, it is also the largest city of Pakistan with a population of...
The holy month of Ramazan is just around the corner. It is a month of piety and sharing and gives the well-to-do a chance to share their good fortune...
It is election time in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Consider the inflationary trends in the country as, according to the Election Commission of...
The most heinous crime you can think of is kidnapping a child. With just one act, that for the kidnapper is nothing more than a step towards making...
For the people of Karachi it has been a little cold these past few days with even the sprinkling of few showers that made the weather a little more...
A level playing field is the buzzword these days. This is being used by all and sundry from the critics of the cricket pitches on which we lost some...