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Here are the Details Facts and Figures Yearwise 
FACTS & FIGURES 2008
  Facts & Figures April 2008

ISSUES:

  • ‘Inflated bills, outstanding dues’

  • The looming energy crisis

  • ‘Tanker mafia’ behind Karachi’s water woes

  • A house for every citizen
  Facts & Figures March 2008

ISSUES:

  • Important stakeholders in the dark about Karachi expansion plan

  • Power crisis will put new govt to the test

  • Education for the poor

  • The poverty of opportunity

  • Waterfront project occupies more land than New York, says expert

  • 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

 

  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

 

FACTS & FIGURES 2007
  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

 

  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
  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
  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
  Facts & Figures JULY 2007

ISSUES:

  • Quality of life: Karachi a low-ranking city

  • 2 people die daily in traffic accidents in city: report

  • Worsening power crisis in Karachi

  • Problem of urbanisation

  • 78pc women workers face harassment
  Facts & Figures JUNE 2007

ISSUES:

  • Strategy for reducing poverty

  • What hurts is the rich-poor divide

  • Badly neglected and mismanaged social sector

  • Stubborn inflation
  Facts & Figures May 2007

ISSUES:

  • Twenty years of Failures; Only 8pc social sector programmes successful: ADB

  • Do we need the Karachi Elevated Expressway?

  • An elevated environmental risk

  • An elevated hazard

  • ‘Stop the sale of Karachi’s public beaches’

  • Flawed Project
  Facts & Figures April 2007

ISSUES:

  • House building costs to go up as cement, steel prices surge

  • Consumers’ slipping purchasing power

  • Misplaced priority to luxury housing

  • Housing for the poor
  Facts & Figures March 2007

ISSUES:

  • Pakistan's public debt goes up by Rs1.46 trillion in 7 years

  • 'And then they came for me' A hundred beats

  • An "excellent gift" indeed Out of my head

  • SHC allows Beachfront Project

  • Demolition at Hawkesbay: Hut owner gets stay from SHC

  • To elevate or not to elevate
  Facts & Figures February 2007

ISSUES:

  • 19 reasons why Shahra-e-Faisal shouldn’t be destroyed by an elevated expressway: IAP

  • Need to convert Mai Kolachi to a bridge on pillars

  • Constructing wall along railway tracks

  • Inquiry into Kachi Canal

  • Diamond Bar Island City project: Dubai-based firm to make 85% profit

  • Govt mulling 5-yr ban on transfers in leased slums
  Facts & Figures January 2007

ISSUES:

  • Evicting poor no solution to housing issues

  • PR to start selling its land for 5-star hotels

  • 17,000 public unrest events recorded in four years

  • Waterfront project will deprive people of a basic right

  • Land lawlessness

  • No compensation for LBOD victims
FACTS & FIGURES 2006
  Facts & Figures December 2006

ISSUES:

  • Lyari Expressway: still in the making

  • Fraud in plot allotments blows holes in Lyari Expressway Resettlement project

  • Lyari Expressway Fraudsters booked

  • Dirty Deals

  • Former CJ voices doubts over beachfront privatisation

  • Most ministers oppose land reforms
  Facts & Figures November 2006

ISSUES:

  • Issues Related to the Defence Housing Authority’s (DHA)

  • Beach Development Project

  • Vendors at seashore

  • Goths still await regularization

  • KBCA told to raze 3 bungalows in Clifton

  • New law empowers govt to sell land at will

  • Finding Karachi in the Planet of Slums
  Facts & Figures September/October 2006

ISSUES:

  • City’s uplift and principles of urban planning
  • A City for the Rich
  • Waterfront project does not take poor into account’
  • Who owns the allotted islands?
  • DHA, KPT projects along beach criticized
  Facts & Figures August 2006

ISSUES:

  • Fountain for the poor, beaches for the rich
  • DHA, KPT projects along beach criticized
  • No alternative but to soldier on
  • Why Karachi turned into a cesspool when it rained
  • Pollution crosses tolerable limits: Suparco airs SOS
  Facts & Figures July 2006

ISSUES:

  • Why make people homeless?

  • Expressway to Nowhere for Displaced People

  • Victims of Lyari Expressway; Homeless man threatens to kill himself and son

  • PAKISTAN: Civil Society condemns evictions in Karachi

  • Is cheap land for pricey Mercs a fair deal?

  • PAF swoops on Hingol National Park
  Facts & Figures June 2006

ISSUES:

  • Survey without current data on education

  • Explicit liabilities jump 63 per cent

  • Health expenditure 0.51pc of GDP: One doctor for 1,310 people

  • The coming domestic debt challenge

  • Anti-pollution drive seems to generate much heat

  • Is a tiff between CM, CDGK brewing over land allotment issue?

  • Multi-storeyed parking plaza in Clifton planned

  Facts & Figures May 2006

ISSUES:

  • UN Expert Calls For Immediate Halt To Forced Evictions In Karachi, Pakistan

  • Privatisation further downs KESC’s battery

  • A City Bulldozed

  • Never in the debt trap again

  • Pakistan 13th on the list of spurious drug manufacturers

  • Traffic jams take 500 lives in 2 months
  Facts & Figures April 2006

ISSUES:

  • Karachi City government plans to demolish another 6000 houses in 20 different settlements.

  • Lyari Expressway: Boon or Bane?

  • Nazim declares post-1985 Katchi Abadis illegal

  • A vision of change for Karachi

  • Only 1500 buses for city of 15 million

  • Scavengers lighten city government’s burden
  Facts & Figures March 2006

ISSUES:

  • IFI Loans and the failure of Urban Development

  • Lyari Expressway: A new land scam?

  • Made homeless and out in the cold

  • Footpaths being encroached upon

  • Asthma cases on the rise in Karachi
  Facts & Figures February 2006

ISSUES:

  • Evictions in Karachi

  • Lyari Expressway The pain of being displaced

  • The battering of our beaches

  • Garbage lifting goes into private hands from February 15

  • The City Underneath
  Facts & Figures January 2006

ISSUES:

  • Traffic and Mass Transit issues Lessons From Other Countries

  • Endangered, the people

  • Rs1.7bn projects for Karachi announced, City Council meets

  • Privatization of Solid Waste Management service

  • Forced Eviction: one of the worst forms of human rights abuse
FACTS & FIGURES 2005
  Facts & Figures December 2005

ISSUES:

  • COAL DUST: Another Pollutant in City

  • The Widening Disconnect

  • A Distorted Tax-Base Fuelling Poverty

  • Abrogation of Privatization Policy Demanded

  • Rs4bn Coastal Development Projects in Sindh Planned

  Facts & Figures November 2005

ISSUES:

  • URBANIZATION AND HOUSING

  • Inflated prices push up kitchen budget

  • Inflation Drops, Prices Rise

  • Social and Fiscal Deficits

  Facts & Figures October 2005

ISSUES:

  • Crisis of transparency

  • New GHQ to be eighth wonder: PML-N

  • Crime with social implications

  • Coal dust: another pollutant in city

  • Use of CNG increases nitrogen level in environment’

  • Encroachment, illegal connections helped contamination

  Facts & Figures September 2005

ISSUES:

  • Over 300 new victims of dirty water disease 3-year-old dies of dehydration

  • New body to analyze water quality in 3 cities

  • WB ready to invest in large dams: 10-fold raise in funding promised

  • World Bank suggests strategy for Pakistan water sector

  • Water Pollution in Pakistan

  • Life comes to a standstill as dirty water takes toll

  • Rs2.4 billion plan to provide clean water

  • Tankers make 15,000 trips daily to supply water

  Facts & Figures August 2005

ISSUES:

  • Reviving Circular Railway

  • City buildings ill-equipped to cope with fires

  • More than 1.5m drug users in Sindh
    Financial trouble may hit KCR operation

  • Preparation of Master Plan 2020 begins

  • Encroachment galore all over city
  Facts & Figures July 2005

ISSUES:

  • CLIFTON BEACH; Ghariboon ka Sahil, Ameeron ka Sahil

  • Clifton Beach

  • Privatization of Clifton Beach

  • Mushroom of Unplanned Units

  • Allotment' of Clifton beach; By V. A. Jaferey

  • Allotment' of Clifton beach; By Arif Hasan

  • Allotment' of Clifton beach; By Rafi Adamjee

  • Allotment' of Clifton beach

  • Master plan for high-rises along coastal areas soon
  Facts & Figures June 2005

ISSUES:

  • Budget 2005-06 in perspective

  • An Archaic Theory

  • Defence spending up by 3.3pc

  • NWFP fails to spend Rs469 million development grants

  • Development, Zakat funds may lapse

  • Does growth also means poverty reduction?

  • Taxing the nerves, then easing some
  Facts & Figures May 2005

ISSUES:

  • When fathers kill...

  • Whither Poverty Reduction?

  • Oil prices fuel inflation

  • Water Supply falling apart
  Facts & Figures April 2005

ISSUES:

  • Wrong Side of the Tracks

  • Living on the Edge

  • Poverty and Official Policies

  • The Car Explosion; Boon or Bane?
  Facts & Figures March 2005

ISSUES:

  • Rs2.103bn irregularities detected in Nadra

  • MVR wing lets over 50,000 files go 'missing'

  • Over Rs7 billion irregularities detected in NHA

  • Rooting out police corruption

  • How politics promotes police corruption
  Facts & Figures February 2005

ISSUES:

  • Upward trend in prices of essential goods

  • Rs.40,000 raise in ministers’ pay, allowance

  • Refocusing on poverty

  • Inflation up by 8.15 percent in January

  • The Politics of Pricing
  Facts & Figures January 2005

ISSUES:

  • 4,302 cases of women abuse reported in 2004

  • Women, children abduction on the rise

  • Inflation encouraging adulteration

  • WTO: challenge and opportunity

  • Mass transit projects for Karachi: analysis required

  • Population, Pollution and Water
Facts & Figures 2004
  Facts & Figures December 2004

ISSUES:

  • Linking Growth with Poverty

  • Micro-Credit and the Poor

  • Housing for Low Income Groups

  • Rise of the multinational
  Facts & Figures November 2004

ISSUES:

  • Lyari Expressway Lyari's Displaced People

  • In the midst of desolation

  • Circular railway to be revived by January

  • Karachi Circular Railway: Operations likely from Jan 15 on existing tracks

  • Banks to be approached for KCR financing

  • Revival of KCR to minimize transport problems’

  • Two rakes for KCR being built in Lahore

  • Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) to be restored
  Facts & Figures October 2004

ISSUES:

  • City government to back low-cost housing projects

  • City Government considering the allotment of free of cost land for four projects.

  • Lease rates for Kutchi Abadis finalized
  • Regularization policy for Kutchi Abadis
  • City government's lease move criticized

  • 25,779 villages to be regularized 

  • Growth of unauthorized settlements rampant

  • Government planning low-cost housing schemes

  • Housing

  • Percentage Distribution of households by source of drinking water through pipe lines, area and district, 1998 Census
  Facts & Figures September 2004

ISSUES:

  • 55 percent of Education Budget Lapses

  • CDGK fails to Implement Education Programme

  • Historical School Building Left To Rot

  • Overworked and Underpaid

  • Faculty Members Lack Required Research Qualification
  Facts & Figures August 2004

ISSUES:

  • Sindh Govt. Hospitals Face Acute Shortage of Doctors, Paramedics

  • Govt. Hospitals Short Of Women MLOs

  • Government Hospital Equipment Non-Functional

  • Maternity Homes Lack Trained Staff

  • Malaria: The Disease of Poverty and Ignorance

  • Fighting Aids

  • Early onset of Bone Diseases Observed Among Women
  Facts & Figures July 2004

ISSUES:

Federal Budget

  • Rs 903bn budget for 2004-05: Stress on growth and investment -•One million jobs to be created •Incentives to boost agriculture •Power tariff cut •Sales tax on cotton seed oil •Duty, ST relief for industry

Provincial Budget

  • Rs 122.90bn budget for Sindh

  • Rs 1.162bn allocated for Karachi under ADP - 2004-2005 budget

CDGK Budget

  • Rs 32.67 billion City District Government budget approved
  Facts & Figures June 2004

ISSUES:

WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION

  • Addressing water supply in Karachi

  • Karachi getting 240mgd unfiltered water

TRANSPORT

  • TRAFFIC TRIALS

  • Traffic problems increasing in City

SOLID WASTE

  • City govt to set up 8 garbage stations

  • Fresh approach to solid waste management
  Facts & Figures May 2004

ISSUES:

  • The Mega Projects That Karachi Needs

  • Planning For Karachi: A Few Reminders

  • District finances are in shambles

  • Anomalies Mar Implementation of SLGO

  • Karachi without Master Plan
  Facts & Figures April 2004

ISSUES:

  • Understanding Karachi's Traffic Problems

  • CDGK fails to improve Transport System

  • Parking problem creates security hazards; Karachi View

  • Silencing the rickety noice-makers

  • Final Shape to KCR Project
  Facts & Figures March 2004

ISSUES:

  • Housing: built unit approach again

  • Housing: more needs to be done

  • Development Homeless among the riches
  Facts & Figures February 2004

ISSUES:

  • Water issue: Distribution and Sharing

  • Mangla dam raising project sedimentation perspective

  • Threat of water war

  • City Government fails to start Dam

 
  Facts & Figures January 2004

ISSUES:

  • Bread, Onion and Diesel

  • Living with Stress

  • Let’s get water before it is too late

  • The Looming water crises

  • City Government on a Bumpy Drive

 
Facts & Figures 2003
  Facts & Figures December 2003

ISSUES:

  • Development scene in Karachi

  • Lyari Expressway After The Verdict

  • City planning is not a mere project

  • Increasing suicides

  • 38pc children below five in country underweight: report

 
  Facts & Figures November 2003

ISSUES:

  • Policies Deepen Poverty

  • SBP report: A Dismal Message for the Poor

  • Poverty, Lack of Investment and unemployment

 
  Facts & Figures October 2003

ISSUES:

  • Sabzi Mandi needs professional management

  • Unemployment: a hole in the system

  • Karachi needs land use control strategy

  • Karachi City of 14 Million Without Master Plan

 
  Facts & Figures September 2003

ISSUES:

  • OIL SPILL AT KARACHI PORT: CALAMITY TO MARINE LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

  • OIL SLICK CAUSES DECLINE IN FISH PRICES

  • 'SOCIAL GROWTH REMAINS POOR'

  • LEASE RATES FOR KUTCHI ABADIS REDUCED

  • KARACHI’S PROBLEMS

  • 600 DIE IN ACCIDENTS IN CITY EVERY YEAR

 
  Facts & Figures August 2003

ISSUES:

  • THE TIDAL LINK DISASTER

  • LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM LACKS FULL FISCAL POWERS

  • PR BLOCKS PROGRESS ON KCR PROJECT

  • AFGHAN WAR CAUSED $10bn LOSS TO PAKISTAN: REPORT

  • WAKE-UP CALL FOR US AND SAUDI ARABIA

  • THE HARSH TRUTH ABOUT TB

 
  Facts & Figures July 2003

ISSUES:

  • PAKISTAN FEDERAL BUDGET 2003 - 2004; ANYTHING FOR THE POOR?
  • RS.90 BN SINDH BUDGET PRESENTED:  OPPOSITION STAGES NOISY PROTEST; 15 PC RISE IN SALARIES, PENSIONS
  • RS.27.7 BN CDGK BUDGET UNVEILED
  • RS.161 BN FOR PUBLIC SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
  • RS.5 BN W&S DEPARTMENT BUDGET PRESENTED

 
  Facts & Figures June 2003

ISSUES:

  • LOANS MAKE BEGGARS

  • DILEMMA OF SLOW GROWTH DESPITE STABILITY

  • THE COMMON TOUCH
  Facts & Figures May 2003

ISSUES:

  • ALLEVIATING POVERTY

  • NO MORE DIKTATS

  • WILL LARGER FOREIGN LOANS REDUCE POVERTY?

 
  Facts & Figures April 2003

ISSUES:

  • Mass Transit Conundrum

  • Transport Mafia Still In Defiant Mood

  • City Government Lacks Direction In Housing Schemes

  • The City Diary

  • No Plan To Resolve Solid Waste Management Problem

  • 170m Have Hepatitis C

  • Environmental Aspects of Development
  Facts & Figures March 2003

ISSUES:
   Facts & Figures February 2003

ISSUES:

 
   Facts & Figures January 2003

ISSUES:

  • Saving KCR from extinction

  • Semi-mass transit system for Karachi

  • KCR revival plan shelved as Islamabad refuses funds

  • Magno train project okayed in principle

  • Karachi Circular Railway

  • Scrapping KCR project

  • KCR tracks may be used for Magno train project

  • ADB denies funding of Lyari Expressway

  • A DISGRACEFUL INCIDENT: The violence against Mr. Sanghur should be investigated

  • Forced Evictions; In the name of development
Facts & Figures 2002
   Facts & Figures December 2002

ISSUES:

  • 300 Long Buses to ply under Urban Bus Project

  • KCR Revival Plan ready for approval by President

  • KCR Rehabilitation Steering body meets

  • KCR: Lack of will

  • Work on Electric Train Project soon: Naimat

  • MoU Signed for $.12 bn Magnetic Train

  • Mono-Train Project put into cold storage

  • Traffic master plan for all towns

  • New master plan for transport system

  • City government fails to develop Bus stands.

  • Inter-city bus terminals to be built

  • Retired city government staff to manage bus depots

  • Government to ensure traffic rules enforcement

  • Zebra crossings to be painted

  • Zebra crossings and traffic signals

  • City government to build 10 pedestrian bridges

  • Comprehensive plan to improve traffic system
  Facts & Figures November 2002

ISSUES:

  • Sindh Water Management Ordinance Promulgated

  • The Mega Water Façade

  • 1800 Pakistani’s Die of Pollution Each Year

  • Pollution Cost