Khawaja Khalid Farooq

Karachi is the only megacity of Pakistan and a nerve centre of the national economy, contributing an estimated 20 percent to the national GDP. An international organisation has estimated that by 2025 the GDP in the purchasing power parity of the city will rise to $ 193 billion from $ 78 billion in 2008. By […]

Terming the National Action Plan (NAP) a “big joke”, the Supreme Court’s (SC’s) Justice Jawad Khawaja has recently once again lambasted the government for its inaction over the NAP during the past six months. The honourable justice remarked that the NAP had been devised to deceive the masses, adding that not a single bit of […]

Debate on the National Action Plan (NAP) is in full swing nowadays with one of the major points of concern being madrassa (seminary) reforms, an effort to bring some sort of checks on the mushrooming growth of these religious schools. In 1947, Pakistan had less than 300 madrassas. By 1988, it had less than 3,000 […]

Karachi is not only said to be one of the most dangerous metropolises in the world, it is also a place where the effort to combat terrorism lawfully through the criminal justice system is at its worst. As the most important measure of this, Karachi has the highest caseload in terms of number of cases […]