Over half of city inaccessible to wheelchair users
KARACHI, April 28: Ali Imran studies in Karachi University’s mass communication department and has to rely on his classmates to carry him up the five or six stairs to the department. Ali can neither take classes on

Medico-legal centres across Sindh suffer from neglect
KARACHI, April 21: While government hospitals in only three police divisions in Sindh — Karachi, Hyderabad and Larkana — have medico-legal centres, all the three posts of medico-legal officers are lying vacant at the

‘Time to review the history of civilisation and Silk Route’
KARACHI, Jan 23: “The notion that urban human civilisation began in Mesopotamia and then those people went and settled in Egypt, China and lastly along the Indus River banks is wrong. The Indus Valley

Key sources of national history gathering dust in KU library
The condition of the records has come to a state that if they are not preserved immediately, they will be lost in a few years.

Call for nurturing democratic culture
KARACHI, Sept 20: One of the lessons to be learnt from Europe is that we need to nurture democratic culture and not just the system of governance for progress and prosperity, said international relations experts during an academic discourse at Karachi University on Wednesday.

Call for using information law to fight extremism
KARACHI, Sept 6: Academicians speaking at a seminar on Thursday called for citizens to utilise their right to information and use it for dialogues among themselves to help counter extremism in society.