By Aslam Shah

KARACHI: Around 15 different authorities including federal, provincial, autonomous bodies and civic entities are simultaneously the custodians of land control in Karachi. Under federal government control entities-Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan, Pakistan Railway (PR), Cantonment Boards, Port Qasim Authority (PQA), Karachi Port Trust (KPT), Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), Export Processing Zones, Pakistan Public Works Department, […]

KARACHI: The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has terminated the services of Chief Security Officer, a two years contract post in basic pay scale-18, on pretext of going abroad without taking any formal leave from the entity, Mahmood Qadir, Deputy Managing Director (DMD) Human and Research Department of KWSB informed. “The entity is now taking […]

KARACHI: There is no official record of number of burials on daily basis of at least 155 graveyards in Karachi, officials of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) revealed. Only 51 graveyards which are maintaining records are registered with a section in Municipal Services Department of KMC. The non-registered graveyards have been earmarked at different places in […]

KARACHI: The Sindh government’s sight in the milieu for creating Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB) is backlash on its ill-natured policy. Murad Ali Shah, Chief Minister Sindh, who is also Chairman of SSWMB has hasted an effort to earn name for cleaning Karachi from heaps of filth elsewhere other cities in Sindh has inflicted […]

KARACHI: Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) in separate memoranda has requested Cooperative Societies Sindh and Secretary Land Utilisation Board of Revenue not to furnish any further lease to cooperative housing societies. Around five such cooperative housing societies have created housing schemes and commercial blocks by encroaching on 261 acres land of KWSB’s trunk mains-ranging […]

KARACHI: On the directives of Local Government Department (LGD) Sindh, finally Karachi Development Authority (KDA) has taken over the charge of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Park, built on 47 acres of land, in Clifton. Nasir Abbas, Director General, KDA has informed that decision was taken on January 2017 but the delay over taking control of the […]

KARACHI: Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB) in quagmire as ownership of four of its six land sites, earmarked for Garbage Transfer Station (GTS) has been challenged by different quarters. SSWMA was given six land sites of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and Karachi Development Authority for building GTS on parts of […]

KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has started working to create its own Transport Communication Department (TCD), its director S M Taha informed. “We are working on a concerted plan in this regard and hopefully will complete deliberations to put the plan for debate and approval in next council meeting of KMC before entity’s annual budget […]

KARACHI: Sindh Sold Waste Management Authority (SSWMB) has on trial basis started sipping of main roads of district south through 20 water browsers, imported from China, officials of SSWMA informed. This practice of cleaning roads with the help of using water-laden carriers has been re-started after 45 years. City administration in bygone used to swab […]

KARACHI: The citizens of Karachi are being supplied 420 million gallons of water per day (MGD) without any treatment through Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) water trunk mains, officials of water entity revealed. The existing working filtration capacity currently available is 50 MGD from Pipri Filter Plant, 100 MGD from North East Karachi (NEK) […]