Pasban Democratic Party Chairman Altaf Shakoor has sounded the alarm over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Karachi's informal settlements, villages, and slums, where severe water shortages, ...

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Orangi Town, on the outskirts of Karachi, is often described as one of the largest slums in the world — home to an estimated ...

KARACHI: The slum areas of the megacity, Karachi, face acute shortage of water, heaps of uncollected garbage and overflowing gutters as the authorities concerned have turned their blind eye to these ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Architects and planners in rapidly growing cities must work with slum dwellers to build skywards and create high-rise, self-built housing blocks, a leading ...