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FACTS & FIGURES 2010 |
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Facts
& Figures May 2010
ISSUES:
- A city with two souls
- Resolving the energy crisis
- Delay in K-IV plan may lead to water riots
- Anomalies detected in $40m coastal community project
- Freeing education
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Facts
& Figures April 2010
ISSUES:
- Tap water for all
- Root causes of energy crisis
- Minor burnt alive in Korangi shanty town blaze
- A solution to poverty?
- Korangi industrial area: Waste burning poses public health
hazard
- Venturing into community power generation
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Facts
& Figures March 2010
ISSUES:
- The Enterprising Poor
- Clean drinking water still a distant dream
- Education in Pakistan
- Child killed, several injured, 300 huts destroyed in
shanty town blaze
- KCR revival delayed due to MDA-PR land dispute
- Sepa issued notices to over 1,000 industrial units for
causing pollution
- Garbage dumping for land reclamation puts coastal
communities’ livelihoods in jeopardy
- Toxic waste dumping at Gondal Pass threatening
lives
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Facts
& Figures February 2010
ISSUES:
- Environmental degradationl;
Karachi sinking in its own
waste
The ever-growing population
Need to initiate pro-poor housing schemes; ‘Housing
backlog reaches 8.8 million units’
CDGK’s flyovers
Water: Fit to drink?
315 villages to be sanctioned shortly
2,159 mega projects completed in four years
Fear of satellite mapping
Gutter Baghicha case: Arrest warrants against three suspects
issued
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Facts
& Figures February 2010
ISSUES:
- Environmental degradationl;
Karachi sinking in its own
waste
The ever-growing population
Need to initiate pro-poor housing schemes; ‘Housing
backlog reaches 8.8 million units’
CDGK’s flyovers
Water: Fit to drink?
315 villages to be sanctioned shortly
2,159 mega projects completed in four years
Fear of satellite mapping
Gutter Baghicha case: Arrest warrants against three suspects
issued
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Facts
& Figures January 2010
ISSUES:
- 200 lives lost to targeted killings in over one year
- An inconvenient bargain
- Law passed to regularise pre-97 Katchi Abadis
- Move against heritage demolition
- Call to halt demolition of heritage buildings
- 471 graveyards in city out of space, tribesmen occupy
burial lands
- Cities being made - unfriendly for poor
- Private schools in Pakistan
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FACTS & FIGURES 2009 |
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Facts
& Figures December 2009
ISSUES:
- SC orders Makro to vacate playground
- Drinking water policy and ground realities
- Controversies over water sharing
- Hitches in proposed plan mar LEW completion
- Displaced but rehabilitated
- How Pakistan survives
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Facts
& Figures November 2009
ISSUES:
- Death of a social activist
- Prof Nauman bows out
- Alarming rise in pedestrian deaths on city roads
- Tarin approves funds for 500 CNG buses
- KCR revival meets with yet another interruption
- Subsidising roads for the affluent
- Senate committee worried over incomplete Lyari
Expressway
- Narreri Lake poisoned by LBOD project
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Facts
& Figures October 2009
ISSUES:
- KWSB initiates SFC-III project;
500MGD to be treated
through four new plants, upgrading old ones
Power plants at KWSB pumping
stations sought
Foreign funding stopped as KWSB fails to pay back Rs42bn
Water conservation
Two children perish in shanty blaze
Stay on commercialisation of roads extended
Flawed plan’ likely to delay Lyari Expressway
KESC’s dilemma
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Facts
& Figures September 2009
ISSUES:
- Assessing walkability in Karachi
- Suicides on the rise in Pakistan
- Skyscrapers plan: KBCA moves to hire foreign consultants
- Side-effect Gutter Bageecha
- About 1,200 coastal villages lack basic health facilities
- Commercial bore wells damaging country’s water
table
- Falling tanker service income baffles KWSB officials
- Karachi yet to warm up to parking plaza
culture
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Facts
& Figures August 2009
ISSUES:
- Quarterly report on accidents;
Over 300 killed, 1,300
maimed on roads
50 CNG buses on two routes launched
Light Train Transport project not feasible for Karachi
Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) Revival Plans
Experts denounce ‘neo-liberal’ development of city
Development: The urbanisation challenge
Kamal orders channelisation of Gujjar Nullah
Mohammadi Colony residents makes history
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Facts
& Figures July 2009
ISSUES:
- KESC projects on the back burner
- Establishing right to water
- Governance — from bad to worse In the national
interest
- Delays push KCR project cost up to $1.58 bn
- 33pc rise in road accident deaths in 2008’
- Karachi is world's 4th cheapest city: survey
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Facts
& Figures June 2009
ISSUES:
- Poverty reduction: rhetoric and the reality
- Addressing fiscal anomalies
- Economic Survey depicts a grim picture
- Police, power sector rated as most corrupt in Pakistan
- KESC could have done better, says inquiry report
- ‘At least 40 police stations in city built on amenity
plots’
- City Council approves creation of hawkers’ zones
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Facts
& Figures May 2009
ISSUES:
- Lyari Expressway; Contractors being paid millions to do
nothing
- Issues in education
- Private water tankers cater to 40 percent of city’s need’
- Tanker mafia, behind Karachi’s water woes
- Goth under siege
- Saving schools in Orangi
- Urbanization
- Tax on hoardings: CDGK unlikely to meet Rs700m revenue
target
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Facts
& Figures April 2009
ISSUES:
- EIA report faces criticism for its resettlement action
plan
- KCR can’t be implemented before resettlement of 2,600
families
- Road accident deaths rise by 33pc in a year
- Karachi is the eighth noisiest city in the world
- KESC’s Privatisation
- ‘Not a single water sample in Karachi found potable’
- Three minors perish in two shanty fires
- Why major consumers of KWSB pay small water bills
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Facts
& Figures March 2009
ISSUES:
- The ‘mansion’ that Parveen built
- ‘8,000 acres of amenity plots have been occupied in
Karachi’
- Bulk of ‘infrastructure tax’ to be collected from
middle class
- Regularisation of Goths/Katchi Abadies; Sindh government
declares 4,000 Dehs as 'rural areas'
- SKAA, BoR in row over goths, katchi abadis control
- Environment degradation causes huge economic losses to
Pakistan
- Tuberculosis: a major killer
- Need for the right solution
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Facts
& Figures February 2009
ISSUES:
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Facts
& Figures January 2009
ISSUES:
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Slum
Fire Reignites Housing Concerns
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Shanty
fire, pose more questions
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22
children among 40 killed in fire
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What
caused the fire?
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Slums
susceptible to disaster without planning
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There
was no place to run
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Necessity
trumps grief for some blaze survivors
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The
anatomy of a shanty
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Survivors
deal with scars of
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Infant
dies in shanty fire
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Huts
on Fire
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FACTS & FIGURES 2008 |
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Facts
& Figures December 2008
ISSUES:
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Facts
& Figures November 2008
ISSUES:
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Coastal
schemes and the KSDP
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Explosive
nature of urban poverty
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SHC
dismisses plea in Kidney Hill case
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Several
city areas getting water unfit for consumption
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Development
goals: bridging the gaps
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Facts
& Figures October 2008
ISSUES:
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City
roads should be car-free rather than signal-free
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Karachi
railway among 51 projects approved
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KCR
revival awaiting Ecnec approval
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Ancient
buses, dream trains
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Sepa
says noise level alarmingly high
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DHA
waterfront project; Sepa fails to
hold its standpoint
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People’s
right to know
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Facts
& Figures September 2008
ISSUES:
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The
non-transparent KESC sale
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Power
shocks daze Karachi; KESC allowed to raise tariff
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Will
the KESC’s new management be able to deliver?
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Countrywide
deficit surges to 4,500MW
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Private
schools seek free hand in fee-hike
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Plastic
recycling poses risk to citizens’ health
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Solid
waste Project put on hold
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700,000
displaced so far: HRCP
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Facts
& Figures August 2008
ISSUES:
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Densification
of Karachi
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KWSB
can earn Rs 50b yearly by controlling hydrants, selling
water
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Prolonged
power cuts as KESC system collapses
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As
Decision Makers Dither, Pakistan Water Crisis Deepens
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Karachi
traders pay millions in protection money
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We
top Asia’s cheapest cities to live in
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Facts
& Figures July 2008
ISSUES:
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The
Proposed Densification of Karachi
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Shershah
bridge reconstruction contract okayed: No action against ‘culprits’
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Traffic
woes continue to plague motorists despite efforts
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No
check on activities of illegal hydrants
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55,000
out of 160,000 immigrants in Pakistan registered in Karachi
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Government
will repent the privatization of KESC, says MD
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Rupee’s
plunge swells external debt by $5.4bn
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Facts
& Figures June 2008
ISSUES:
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Saddar,
Lea Market pay Rs25m in extortion money every month
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An
electrifying transport solution
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It’s
not only the Kunda system that is the problem...
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Is
it transparent now?
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Keti
Bunder facing sea intrusion
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Facts
& Figures May 2008
ISSUES:
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Development:
Addressing housing needs
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Gravel-lifting
kills agriculture in Malir
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Karachi
Strategic Development Plan 2020 (KSDP 2020)
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KCR
to finally be made a reality...by 2011
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Eviction
and bank loan forced young man to committed suicide
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Shershah
bridge collapse; No case filed despite completion of
report
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328
cases of violence during three months in Sindh: report
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Facts
& Figures April 2008
ISSUES:
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‘Inflated bills, outstanding dues’
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The looming energy crisis
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‘Tanker mafia’ behind Karachi’s
water woes
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A house for every citizen
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Facts
& Figures March 2008
ISSUES:
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Important
stakeholders in the dark about Karachi expansion plan
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Power
crisis will put new govt to the test
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Education
for the poor
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The
poverty of opportunity
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Waterfront
project occupies more land than New York, says expert
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Sanitation
year launched amid environment issues
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Facts
& Figures February 2008
ISSUES:
- The white elephant that is the Lyari Expressway
- Beach development project seen as monumental disaster
- Pakistan: Our urban nightmare
- Another fire tragedy
- Sepa report says Indus water highly polluted
- Devolution gives too much power to local govts: Arif Hasan
- Privatisation of waste management department opposed
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Facts
& Figures January 2008
ISSUES:
- Vulnerability of Karachi
- The stalled human development
- Road traffic accidents: what lies beneath
- When will Karachi’s burgeoning parking needs be addressed?
- Defying logic and reason
- Toxic water to be released into drinking water source
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FACTS & FIGURES 2007 |
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Facts
& Figures December 2007
ISSUES:
- Housing imperatives for Karachi
- Housing deficit
- ‘Influx of global capital is to benefit the rich’
- 780 people killed, 30,000 injured in road accidents
- Beach-front project;
No environmental clearance yet
- Empress Market; Shopkeepers asked to shift to temporary
location by Dec 14
Status quo granted to residents of two Goths
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Facts
& Figures November 2007
ISSUES:
- The wretched of the earth
- Ill-planned cities are ticking time bombs
- World Population Becomes More Urban Than Rural
- The poverty controversy: what are the real facts?
- In search of clean water
- Development and GDP rates
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Facts
& Figures October 2007
ISSUES:
- Changes in values, lifestyles
- People in 4 towns panic over house demolition for Gujjar
Nullah expansion
- Military capital threatens city in a big way
- KDA library turns to junkyard
- Cost of corruption and inefficiency
- Pedestrians involved in over 40pc of road accidents
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Facts
& Figures AUGUST 2007
ISSUES:
- Evictions worst form of HR violations: HRCP
- City govt bulldozes lives in pursuit of ‘development’
- Displacements and compensation
- 12 My mayhem and demolition of settlement Massive rally by
Sindh Bachao Action Committee
- SHC takes up 550 LEW claims
- One step towards the promised land our correspondent
- Musharraf opens Rs 3.5 billion Northern Bypass
- No taxation without representation
- New flyovers and bridges will not solve traffic problems in
the city
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Facts
& Figures JULY 2007
ISSUES:
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Quality of life: Karachi a low-ranking city
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2 people die daily in traffic accidents in
city: report
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Worsening power crisis in Karachi
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Problem of urbanisation
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78pc women workers face harassment
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Facts
& Figures JUNE 2007
ISSUES:
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Strategy
for reducing poverty
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What
hurts is the rich-poor divide
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Badly
neglected and mismanaged social sector
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Stubborn
inflation
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Facts
& Figures May 2007
ISSUES:
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Twenty years of
Failures; Only 8pc social sector programmes successful:
ADB
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Do we need the
Karachi Elevated Expressway?
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An elevated
environmental risk
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An elevated hazard
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‘Stop the sale of
Karachi’s public beaches’
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Flawed Project
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Facts
& Figures April 2007
ISSUES:
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House building costs
to go up as cement, steel prices surge
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Consumers’ slipping
purchasing power
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Misplaced priority to
luxury housing
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Housing for the poor
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Facts
& Figures March 2007
ISSUES:
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Pakistan's public
debt goes up by Rs1.46 trillion in 7 years
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'And then they came
for me' A hundred beats
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An "excellent gift"
indeed Out of my head
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SHC allows Beachfront
Project
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Demolition at
Hawkesbay: Hut owner gets stay from SHC
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To elevate or not to
elevate
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Facts
& Figures February 2007
ISSUES:
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19 reasons why Shahra-e-Faisal
shouldn’t be destroyed by an elevated expressway: IAP
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Need to convert Mai
Kolachi to a bridge on pillars
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Constructing wall
along railway tracks
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Inquiry into Kachi
Canal
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Diamond Bar Island
City project: Dubai-based firm to make 85% profit
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Govt mulling 5-yr ban
on transfers in leased slums
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Facts
& Figures January 2007
ISSUES:
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Evicting poor no
solution to housing issues
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PR to start selling
its land for 5-star hotels
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17,000 public unrest
events recorded in four years
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Waterfront project
will deprive people of a basic right
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Land lawlessness
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No compensation for
LBOD victims
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