KARACHI, Jan 3: KMC administrator Mohammad Hussain Syed has directed master plan department officials to begin preparing the city’s master plan for the year 2020 and beyond and ensure that the deve

Chief Officer Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Matanat Ali Khan, with the collaboration of all towns, has established a Controlling Cell for improvement of cleanliness condition in the city w

KARACHI, Nov 21: Karachi reported its first polio case of the year on Wednesday, when the national health authorities confirmed poliovirus in an 18-month-old boy living in UC 11 of Liaquatabad, bri

The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) has stopped issuing daily reports of chlorine levels in water, in violation of an agreement reached with the provincial health department at a meeting ar

Karachi—A brain-eating amoeba has killed at least 10 people in Pakistan’s most populous city since May, a World Health Organisation official says.

A total of 157 cases of dengue virus have been reported in Sindh, of which 156 cases were reported in Karachi while one from Hyderabad.

In early August, as people struggled to survive the humid summer heat, a huge power cut deprived almost half of Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, of electricity for more than 16 hours and led to th

As people continue to breathe urban smog, Pakistan Environment Protection Agency’s (EPA) high-tech air monitoring system has been closed due to shortage of funds.

The fundamental challenge facing Karachi is a disorganised, ill-coordinated institutional and governance framework with substantial capacity deficits, according to a recent study assessing the city

Around 22,000 Pakistani children are at risk in Karachi after the World Health Organisation (WHO) suspended polio vaccinations over a spate of bloody shootings, a UN official warned on Thursday.