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By Suhail Yusuf Gang wars,poverty,Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP),football and,maybe,boxing are the notions usually associated with Lyari,one of Karachi’s oldest neighbourhoods. There is,however,more to Lyari than these stereotypes. Historically,the inhabitants of Lyari were among the first settlers Karachi. . . . →Read More:Lyari-beyond stereotypes  Leave a comment  Social Issues  boxing,football,gang wars,Ghulam Abbas and Ustaad Qasim (footballers),Hussain Shah (Olympic boxer),Karachi’s oldest neighbourhood Karachi,Lyari-beyond stereotypes,Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP),Poverty,Sikandar Baloch (former Mr Pakistan in body building),Syed Sajjad Ali Shah (former Chief Justice),The Dual City:Karachi During the Raj,Umar Baloch,Waja Ghulam Muhammad Noor ud Din (educationist),Waja Khair Mohammad Nadvi (scholar who translated Quran into Balochi language) The United Nations has warned that hundreds of millions of children in cities across the world are growing up in poverty and enduring deprivation,cautioning that these situations and needs are often represented by aggregate figures that show urban children to be better off than their rural counterparts,obscuring the disparities that exist among the . . . →Read More:Poverty,deprivation engulf millions of Pakistani children:UN Report President Zardari’s come back on television was something to look forward to. PPP’s inability to resolve the nation’s financial,energy and social issues,the incriminating memo case,NATO’s attack killing Pakistani soldiers,Zardari’s ailing health and absence from the country had made the public quite antsy about hearing from the Head of the State. But . . . →Read More:A President of Evasiveness Pharmagen Health is a community water systems company which has set up water purification plants across dense low-income communities around Lahore. It provides safe,clean drinking water to low-income communities through a Reverse Osmosis and UV filtration process. Pharmagen currently has five water filtration plants;two RO plants with capacities of 3,000 liters per hour . . . →Read More:Clean drinking water at Rs 1.5/ltr in Lahore by Pharmagen 2 comments Health,Social Issues,Videos Acumen Fund,Area 14/8,Area148,charity,choice,clean drinking water,community water systems,company,critical goods,critical services,dignity,investment,Lahore,needless impact,peri-urban,Pharmagen Health,plants,poor,Poverty,purification plants,social enterprises,sustainable,ultra-violent treatment plants,urban,UV treatment plants,water distribution model,water filtration plants,water purification Last week,my husband and I finally booked our return tickets to Pakistan. It was a proud moment,happy moment,not just because we had been saving to buy them for months,but because we had not been home in nearly two years. Two years! It seemed like a lifetime. We had missed much:babies, . . . →Read More:Is there a Pakistan to go back home to? 2 comments Ideascope,Public Gripes,Social Issues,Speaker's Corner,Tourism,Vent it Out! 9/11,Afghan,Afghanistan,Area 14/8,Area148,childhood,cleric,crime,diaspora,expatriate,extremism,faith,heartland,inflation,insecurity,intolerance,Islam,jalebi,Karachi,Lahore,maddhab,mullah,Muslim,Pakistan,Pakistani,paratha,Poverty,return,tenor Even after reconciliation between the ruling PPP and MQM in Karachi over accusations made about target killings,people kept dying at the hands of killer gangs. The toll on January 14 was a shocking 22 dead in 24 hours. Indications persist that violence continues to emanate from political,religious and ethnic causes. The ruling trio . . . →Read More:Terror and chaos in Karachi . . . →Read More:Quaid e Azam –Animated by Express News One comment Achievers,Corruption,Education,Employment,Ideascope,Inflation,Law &Order,Oppression,Public Gripes,Reformers,Social Issues,Vent it Out!,Videos animated,Area 14/8,Area148,Express,Express News,Founder,friendship,great leader,greatness,Jinnah,lessons,Mohammad Ali Jinnah,morals,Pakistan,peace,Poverty,principle,progress,Quaid e Azam,security,teachings,youth Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs &Gilgit-Baltistan,Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo said that poverty,Inflation and unemployment are the common enemy of Pakistan and we should fight together to eradicate them. . . . →Read More:Poverty,inflation,unemployment common enemy of Pakistan | |||
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