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Daily Archives: August 21, 2016

Art and the city

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KARACHI: Driving down Molvi Tamizuddin Khan Road, one cannot but miss the once pleasant and different kinds of graffiti on portions of the walls of the container warehouse there. It wasn’t so long ago when these walls got their new look as part of a cityscape beautification project of an NGO. But weather conditions such […]


Regulating cyberspace

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Law has a paradoxical character. In the absence of law, civil and political liberties can’t be enjoyed. At the same time, every law places a restriction on liberties. It may be another paradox, but freedom has to be curtailed to make sure it can be experienced by society at large. The only question is: in […]


Child abductions: Hearsay continues to feed public anxiety

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KARACHI: The power of hearsay can be gauged from the fact that despite repeated assurances from the authorities, the rumour mill vis-à-vis the ‘rampant kidnappings of kids’ has been running relentlessly in the metropolis, with almost everyone knowing someone who has seen or heard of a child’s abduction in recent days. The air of fear […]