Shaikh Abdul Rasheed

One of Indian subcontinent’s 400 years old historical city,and known as the Paris of Sindh in the past, Shikarpurharbours countless historical, classical and monumental buildings. The buildings have a classical archeological edifice and magnificent architecture, whichepitomize the grandeur of the city’s cultural heritage. Shockingly, because of inevitable reasons and Sindh government’s lack of interest,the architectural […]

Shockingly, in Pakistan, the most vital aspect of healthcare system is also the most overlooked. The shortage of blood, the lack of effective blood management system and the unavailability of voluntary blood donation system collectively are the causes of heart-rending stories of colossal number of the grieved lives, many of which have been cut short. […]

Ravita Meghwat, who had allegedly been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam by men from the Syed community of Wanharo village near Nagarparkar Thar, Sindh on June 6, 2017, denying her abduction and forced conversion gave the Sindh High Court (SHC) Circuit Bench, Hyderabad a written account on June 23 that she wanted to […]

In recent years, Pakistan’s one sector that has undergone huge difficulties and experienced gigantic challenges seriously is education after successive governments have failed to prioritize the basic necessity to educate the citizens. Though Pakistan has doubled its budget with average increase of 17.5 percent every year since 2010 yet according Economic Survey of Pakistan, no […]

In the last two months alone, there have been three incidents in Balochistan where labourers belonging to Sindh working on various development projects were killed by unidentified assailants. These targeted killings seem to be a deliberate attempt to create fissures in friendly relations between the two ethnic groups. In the aftermath of these killings, a […]

In the first week of May 2017, ‘I’, a 12-year-old housemaid hailing from Kandh Kot was allegedly gang raped in Malir, Karachi by seven men including the employer, his two sons and nephews after she was given some intoxicating substance. Forced by the extreme poverty, the girl had been working as a maid for a […]

A month ago, The National Assembly giving legal and constitutional cover to the centuries old jirga and panchayat systems in the country had passed a bill named The Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Bill-2016. The objectives to create the ADR system are to ensure expeditious settlement of some twenty three petty civil and criminal matters before […]

The shrine of the great Sufi saint has been bathed with the blood of his devotees. A suicide bomb blast ripped through the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan,Sindh at the spot where dhamaal (Sufi ritual) was being performed, which took 88lives with 342injured on Thursday evening. The damaging blast is the bloodiest of […]

The shrine of the great Sufi saint has been bathed with the blood of his devotees. A suicide bomb blast ripped through the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan, Sindh at the spot where dhamaal (Sufi ritual) was being performed, which took 88 lives with 342 injured on Thursday evening. The damaging blast is […]

On 21 January 2017, the peaceful and magnificent marches were held by a sea of hundreds of thousands of people in US cities and some 600 protestsin cities across the world in solidarity with US protesters, a day after President Donald Trump was sworn in. Women’ Marches were reportedly intended not to get gynocracy but […]