Zulfiqar Kunbhar

KARACHI: Eid-ul-Azha brings happiness for Hindu nomads as well as this is the time when they get mutton for which they wait the whole year. Reena, a young Hindu lady who belongs to Kokri tribe of Hindus, sitting in her makeshift house located near Ghera Mohalla along Chanesar Goth’s hustling road near Karachi’s Kala Pull […]

KARACHI: A camel can go several days without water. Once water becomes available, a thirsty camel can drink up to 114 litres of water in 10-minutes. Atta Muhammad Hajano, a camel trader camping at Karachi’s cattle market on Super Highway on this Eid-ul-Azha recalls the last time his animals drank water at ‘full capasity’ was […]

KARACHI: A small shop merchant from Larkana is seeking help to get treatment for her daughter who is a cancer patient and is waiting for her death at her home in Larkana. Madiha Bhutto wanted to become a doctor and his father Ali Ahmed Bhutto promised her that he would fulfill her dreams, but when […]

KARACHI: Most of the schools in the port city are advising parents to get their children admitted to schools as soon as the age of two-and-a-half year, so that she or he may become habitual to go to school from very tender age. However, an international study rejects such trends and reveals that the early […]

KARACHI: Every month Sakeena Khatoon, a middle aged woman from Karachi’s Korangi; 100-Quarters area takes her three daughters for blood transfusion to a charity Thalassaemic centre situated at Gulshan-e-Iqbal. Apart from her three thalassaemic-major daughters aged between six to eleven years, her remaining three sons are Thalassaemic minor. Sakeena and her husband Taseen Muhammad Ismail, […]

KARACHI: While the overall impact of drug use in terms of health consequences continues to be devastating, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Tuesday revealed that the number of people classified as suffering from drug user disorder has increased for the first time in six years. There are now over 29 million […]