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Pakistan: Severe smog blankets Karachi as cold wave intensifies
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The financial hub of Karachi, experiencing temperatures as low as 9.5°C, is facing a drop in mercury and dealing with poor air quality. The city's air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 199, deemed "unhealthy" by the Swiss air quality monitor IQAir.
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Pakistan: Clothing warehouse catches fire, causes significant damage
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
A major fire engulfed a clothing warehouse in Karachi's Jamshed Road, resulting in significant damages, Ary News reported.
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Pakistan: Six detained after attack on polio vaccination team in Karachi's
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Six people were arrested in Karachi's Korangi after a polio vaccination team and accompanying police officers were allegedly attacked by a family. The incident occurred during a polio immunisation drive, which has seen heightened security due to ongoing vaccine hesitancy and misinformation.
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Pakistan's Tezgram Express catches fire
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The incident occurred between Kot Lakhpat and Jia Bagga Railway Station, ARY News reported, quoting the spokesperson of Pakistan Railways. The brake van of the Tezgam Express caught fire as it travelled from Lahore to Karachi.
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Lahore air quality index hits hazardous level again amid severe smog
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Despite ongoing efforts by provincial authorities to reduce smog in the cities, Lahore's air quality index (AQI) has once again exceeded the 300 threshold, which is considered "hazardous" to human health.
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Karachi's buildings lack fire safety systems, experts warn at national con
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
City planners, engineers, and architects expressed concerns over the effectiveness of regulatory bodies such as the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) for approving the construction of multi-storey residential, commercial, and industrial buildings without fire safety plans in Karachi on
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Gas prices set to rise across Pakistan
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The decision, sent to the federal government for final approval, seeks an average increase of 25.78 per cent for consumers in Sindh and Balochistan, while consumers in Islamabad, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will experience an 8.71 per cent rise, ARY News reported on Tuesday.
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Pakistan: Man held for confining polio worker in Karachi
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The conflict began when a polio worker entered the building to administer vaccines. The resident, identified as a mobile market trader, and his family refused to comply with the vaccination efforts and allegedly forcibly confined the polio worker to a room within the flat.
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Pakistan: Residents block roads in Karachi's Nazimabad to protest against
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Motorists and commuters remained stuck in the traffic jam on the road that links Nazimabad with SITE area.
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Pakistan: Three coaches of passenger train derail in Karachi
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Pakistan's Rahman Baba Express, en route from Karachi to Peshawar, was derailed at Drigh Road Station when three of its coaches went off the track, ARY News reported.
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Pakistan: Karachi faces ongoing traffic woes despite multi-billion-rupee i
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
In recent decades, traffic congestion has become a major urban challenge affecting life in Karachi Pakistan. This persists despite the construction of eight signal-free corridors, which cost billions of rupees, and two Bus Rapid Transit Systems (BRTS) designed to enhance traffic flow in the
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Pakistan: Political and farmer groups rally against canal project
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Protests continue to intensify across Sindh against the federal government's proposed canal project on the Indus River, with various political and farmer groups voicing their opposition, The Dawn reported.
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